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"A fine win this weekend up at Newcastle, most Salah, Cody gap co Darwin Nunez finding a pulse at last, the very open space, and an even more welcome sight, the return of Virgil van DIJK, along with you gojo and Roberto Firmino to the matchday squad, but these are very much not all days. Many theories abound to try and explain Liverpool shocking fall from the Pinnacle this season from quadrupled chaser to hunted to mix metaphors, you know, some point to a lack of funds as FSG have toyed with a sale but likely to take on investment partners, other point to the loss of key front office thought leaders like FSG president Mike Gordon and the ex Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards stepping off that's led to a lack of position in the transfer market are the still, said it yes, clock can build a squad, but he's never been able to rebuild one. Rory, what do you thinking as to how Liverpool have gone from peel this force to mortal or embanked terms mid in the blink of an eye? It's a little bit of everything to be honest. I suspect there's a lot of physical fatigue that set in for Liverpool after last season. I think there's certainly a psychological fatigue and to be honest, you probably see an echo of that in Real Madrid that it will have taken a lot out of real emotionally to complete all those comebacks. That might partly explain why they've been a little bit kind of yeah, not quite as inspired this season. Liverpool are much more pronounced version of that. They've had injury problems as well. I'm slightly reticent to use the return of Van Dyck to its explanatory power for the turnaround, because a lot of the bad results came with Virgil Van Dyke and the team. So it's not like they've been missing Van Dyck and he's back now so it's okay. I think there are other structural issues. I think teams like Liverpool system teams are really susceptible to losing certain players in certain positions and that sounds like an excuse, but when everything is so sort of finely tuned, it doesn't take much to throw one little thing out. And as soon as one little thing has gone out, I think everything falls apart. That's the vulnerability of teams who are built to play in that one specific way. There's no question that they've failed to strengthen from a position of strength. I think clock probably is rightly being accused of being a little bit too loyal and maybe not seeing the need to refresh as early as he should. And I think that's all come together and what you've got is a team that when it functions fully is irresistible and powerful and incredibly impressive. But kind of like a Formula One car. When one little part isn't working, the whole thing just kind of dries to a hole. And that's been my impression of Liverpool this season. I'd be, again, reluctant to say that the last week or so indicates a turnaround. They have had patches this season where they've won a couple of games. I think they won four either side of the World Cup, and they haven't been able to sustain it. The challenge for Liverpool is sustaining it. And to be perfectly honest, the challenge for Liverpool really is sustaining it against Crystal Palace in the lead. I think whatever they don't Real Madrid is a colossal bonus. I suspect certainly Anfield they'd probably take not being beaten heavily at this stage. There have been signs against Everton and Newcastle that there may be finding a bit of rhythm again, and that's where the seed of hope is. But Real Madrid is Real Madrid. And although they have absentees, they have injuries, they're not quite in gear themselves. The contrasting which gear each of these teams is in is still pretty stark. So Liverpool, I guess we'll have to hope that seeing real confronting the ghost spark something into life. I'm not a 100% sure that's actually how football works. But by the way, you've just absolutely informed my understanding of Everton season by talking about Real Madrid Liverpool being exhausted by just incredible feats past. The drain, the shattering emotionally, mentally, escaping relegation in such dramatic terms last season. That's what's done Everton in and where they have to escape relegation again this season. God bless you, Rory Smith. I'm always learning, roll on Tuesday, a fascinating complex two legged tilt to wait so much history. So many ghosts so much previous in this one, the Champions League really is the everything for these two teams in seasons past when their league campaigns haven't panned out. We'll see if it is again. That one Tuesday, 3 p.m. Eastern Time, we'll be back to go deep on the incredible journey of Europe's most informed number 9 after a quick break.
Men In Blazers
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"Taste of autocracy, sovereign states, American sports investors, just that's why the Super League even came to be for the teams that drove it. The American owners, glazer, kronke, and FSG, they realized for all of their wealth and they are the two of those who in NFL teams, two of those are the NFL and the kings of the American sporting sea, even they are pale into insignificance when they're fighting a battle against the infinite fleshy wallet that is a nation state. And that's where we are. So you're asking a question, is that the only future that's really the question is that what has to happen for your team to be competitive now that you are taken over as a tool for an autocracy. And just asking the question is bloody heartbreaking. I mean, I'm thinking about it a lot forever. Is it better to live by your values? By the way, we're not living by our values at the moment. I think the sherry is a madman. And we can talk about everything on another amp and we've talked about them a lot this week. But I would rather they live by their values and struggle and suffer than to realize that, yeah, it's either autocracy or nothing. If it is autopsy or nothing, football, which is already deeply problematic. I can't even complete that sentence. If it is autocracy or nothing, football becomes what is how I will leave it. For us on the Amsterdam. And it's been a beautiful amp. It's been a heavy amp. It's been an amp up wonder tomorrow. We are going to do a weekend preview, but I want to end tonight by raising a final shot of jagermeister to, I think this is fitting for the tone. To the memory of Charlotte FC defender and Tom Wilkes tragic news out of there this morning that Walt's passed away after a booty accident in Florida, which took place during preseason training. I can not imagine I can't imagine the horror. I walked through the 25 year old English man, a former Tottenham academy and first team player came to MLS initially in 2017 to play for that delirious new Atlanta United inaugural season. I say our deepest sympathies to the walkies family to everyone in the Charlotte and MLS community, this passing, a reminder, as if we needed one of just how fragile and sure and unexpected life can be and a reminder that we should be kind while there's still time. Big love for me, roger, big love from all of us. Men in blazers, we'd love to just say a quick word. To all of you on this amp and listen to this podcast, go to our YouTube page, find our trend Alexander roller the interview was just dropped a few minutes ago. It's great to speak with Trent about the complexities of Liverpool's difficulties and his connection to America. Yes, that's right. Trent could have been a baby eagle. And you'll also hear what is American mother thinks of his new Calvin Klein ad within in his so much going up on our YouTube right now, please subscribe, subscribe subscribe to subscribe. We've got a big Kayo Sakura interview in the edit as we speak. J dubs is going to jump right back into that. We'll drop it there imminently and I'll be back tomorrow with an episode of our weekend preview FOP calling your questions 646-450-9472
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"Get a better taste of what talk is. If only your autocracy didn't have that visit and you start. Do you want me to do a deep dive on rush Fenway Keselowski racing? I am so glad that you know exactly what that is. How are they doing? That's family sports group. Yay. How are they doing? NASCAR fans tell us in the chat. How they're doing, because that's another fun way sports prophecy. God, find a way, the bitter taste of autocracy is an incredible name for an emo band, if any of you are looking for bob. Again, I talked about this a little bit last night. And I feel like a hit probably too hard. And I'm thinking about this a lot, to be honest, that powers because of obviously Everton football clubs are mulling the options, and I've probably in the past 8 months spoken to about a dozen investing groups who are thinking of buying or kicking the tires on or pretending that they're thinking of buying or pretending they're kicking the tires on Everton football club. Some very nice people, some people who clearly don't know anything about football or what they're doing and they're just joining the gold rush that's currently occurring of American investors flooding over to European football. A lot of them I'd say, say one out of three of them is interested in putting together what you mentioned like a football network like Manchester City where they buy not just one team, but they buy 6 or 17 from an investor perspective, you get economies of scale, you get to merge back offices, you get unique in built competitive advantages, you get a route for youth development, the idea is, you know, you've got an academy and maybe some beak and then you move your players from there to your team in Brazil and then you move them to your team in Belgium so they can establish European residency and then get into the Premier League. I mean, there's all kinds of ideas, I am yet to be convinced by any of them or see any of them. And the second reality and I talked about this at length yesterday when I talked about the documentary series that I managed to ruin for so many of you viewers fantastic apart from my contributions to it, the war for football on Apple plus, which relives the 48 hours of the Super League, but really ask the question that you've asked. Is that the option? Is that all we have for football to look forward to that to truly compete at the upper ether? What do you need? Do you need? I mean, we've seen FSG who you are, you know, I admire what FSG have done in many ways. I want to be clear. They're learning curve as American owners when you think about who came before them. Hicks and Gillette to Americans who arrived in Liverpool and immediately said to the press. We love the Liverpool reds. They really said that. They're opening press conference and just continue to descend from their probably my favorite Liverpool owners of all time those two took the club to the brink of bankruptcy. In came FSG and the way FSG learned by doing, I really admire, but what we're seeing and the
Men In Blazers
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"More question from the great app powers unmute can be reversed tell us where you are and what your question. Hi, roger. It's Paul from Cambridge, Massachusetts, not too far from Bill ricka. Bill Rick at the revs player who's playing for genk in the Belgian criminal league. As we speak, I bet you a lot of Belgium scouts are listening in a very interested in young Bill ricker. Who should he tell us what your question is? My team is Liverpool. But I'm calling in partially to answer your question about foreign ownership. So I'm a Liverpool fan, but a Red Sox fan as well. So I have the unique cutthroat being crushed under both arms of FSG's. Penguins. But it's sort of unique torture because as they add more and more teams, which I don't think they're going to stop doing. You know, the budgets tighten the owners get more and more distant. You lose players and don't replace them. Still cut up about Xander Bogart's departure from the Red Sox, but it seems to be a problem at Liverpool as well. We lose money. We lose some midfielders. We signed gakpo, who God bless him is just a forward through and through. But my question is, are we headed in football but in sports more generally toward this hellscape of either conglomeration under ownership that owns 5 teams or these
Men In Blazers
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"We got time to unpack it all with you about this week, the weekend ahead, epic epic stuff. Talk about it all. Arsenal versus Manchester United. What a humdinger. We have ahead of us, huge news for Arsenal fans today. Leandro trossard, brightens ophthalmology enthusiast striker, has reached agreement to sign for $33 million, 7 goals in 17 appearances for Britain this season. I adore this player. I think he's some pickup for arsenal, just a delirious, intelligent, cutting runner and finisher, the depth Arteta's team cried out for and that Todd Burley allowed them to have. In the other massive game, Liverpool will face Chelsea in that mid table rumble watched around the world. I am fascinated watching the Liverpool ownership transition process as conversational questions about this, but there's been a lot of rumors over the past two weeks about a Qatari imminent takeover at Liverpool sources from Fenway sports group, not back that speculation over the past two days. It looks ever more certain that FSG will hold on to majority control, take on minority investors, but the specter of the whole Qatari thing. And watching fans, the agony of this season, the trauma, the where's the new signings, the Liverpool have taken. It's especially it is a special club. It is. You know, it's a unique club. It is built on remarkable values. The club have taken the moral high ground for so long for a reason. And I'm fascinated how Liverpool fans feel about the prospect of sovereign wealth fund money, you're like, yeah, it's the good kind of like not us. That is not what we do. That is a predicament for Liverpool fans. We've got John Oliver coming on soon. And I can't wait to talk to him about that. Today in transfers, that is mentioned Chelsea, Chelsea unbelievably said to be close to signing another attacking midfielder Noni midweek 20 year old English attacking star that he plays for PSV, none of this makes sense to me either. That's a position, obviously they have a stockpile of hard to believe that it's what Graham Potter asked for. Give me another one, which suggests either his time is limited or Tod Burley is a mad king. You decide. West Ham appear to have got themselves that goal scoring gerund, Danny ings for $19 million, which has led to a resurrection of the old meme David Moyes shouting down the phone, screaming. I said signings, not sign, however, gotta tell you by your own offer a Danny ings, that gentleman, that gentleman doesn't know how to finish or at least against Everton football club. And talking about craziness. There was a lot of football madness today. I'm not actually sure if it was football or just madness, geopolitics or global brand burnishing. Yes, you may have seen this a riad 11 the dramatically named Riyadh season team played Paris Saint-Germain. What are the odds of that in a friendly today at the famed home of football king fahid international stadium in Riyadh, so it's lean or message dream since he was a little child to take the field at king fahid, a game which included such that as the foremost followed football players on Instagram or playing in the same game, Cristiano and elder 536 million little Messi 421 million Neymar bapa yes. Yay, global platforms, that's why we watch. It was weird crap, decoding the magnificently awkward handshake between Messi Ronaldo just before kick-off, very brief, wonderfully pained and cold, little Messi scored after three minutes. I was honestly sorry and a bit sad that dude did not decide to play the game wearing the bish that the emir of Qatar gave him as a humble bracket would have driven Ronaldo wild to see the goat just taking a field and swallowing around in his best Ronaldo dribbled whenever he could. There was one room where he nutmeg someone in the middle of the pitch and then a teammate swooped in onto the organelle to actually call him off so that he could continue the drip, although back heel passes from Ron Ron that was a lot of flair. Almost seemed like he was worried he wasn't going to school until he tried to highlight really where he could, shall we still Ronnie, still got it, had a really pained awkward smile on his face through a lot of the early going constipated Rodney smile is the Ronnie smile, I think we're going to see a lot in the next two years. He did score twice, I should say. He did see genuinely gleeful when he got a second. Like, I have more than the message. That means something to me. All the big players went off in the 61st minute and the game, disintegrated. I mean, who really tuned into being to see a reality 11 take the field, show the run run, but at the end of it, honestly, felt a sadness. I don't know about you. I don't know if anyone even watch this game. But yes, it was a slightly surreal cheesy fabricated event, but it made you realize it could be the last dance, the final time we get to see these two giants of the game. The two men who have dominated the men's game for so long player gates each other, a reminder we should take nothing for granted, even footballs eternal reality, though I did love this Instagram comment from at sharks on Mars. Ah, this isn't the last dance. The last dance will be LAFC against Miami in 2025, whatever the best part of this whole ridiculousness, Salt Bae was not invited. You've got new year's goals and HelloFresh is here to help you achieve them. Skip the grocery store and take control of your time and budget with delicious recipes delivered right to your door.
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"You can't build a 250,000 seat stadium, although you don't bet us might try to do that one day. So there's a whole business model piece to this. I think people need to people need to understand. Jürgen Klopp though, very categorical about this. He came out and he said, whatever happens, I'm staying. Yeah. Pretty much. He said, he's committed to the club, regardless of ownership. He said also that I think when you extended his deal, not a long ago, it was on the belief that it was the partnership with FSG as well. And the orders of the club, that's why I think he believes more right now that they're just looking for investors. I think he may have even said that the club is not for sale, per se, as in the whole, the whole club. We'll have to see, I don't know exactly what he knows or what they've told him or not, because like you rightly said, I think the door is open to anything. Really? But it's a good thing at least to other managers, like, yeah, this is not really bothering me. This is not a negative pressure or negative influence on negative noise because we know where we are. We know what we're doing. And we're going to keep doing what we've been doing. Now one of the other things, which I think is significant here in terms of how they went about doing it. I mean, you said before I tend to agree. If you produce an investment that you've got an actual physical something that you can't deny, right? The fact that they wanted it out. I think is relevant because if there's one thing that I've kind of learned covering this business and sometimes the business of football is that there aren't that many billionaire. And to some degree, they kind of all know each other. Yeah, yeah. So if they wanted to do this quietly, the way, for example, they did it quietly when they sold, I think it's 11% to Fenway sports group. They sold it to red bird. As far as I know, they didn't engage in investment bank to find red bird. They didn't, you know, they just, they knew the guys. They called up, hey, Jerry. You want to talk, and we do business, whatever. And they did the deal. Now, I'm purely speculating here. You showed me speculate, well, this is kind of part of the thing because there's only so much we know. I would get the impression that they have perhaps gone to the people that they know and the sources that they know. And it's a lot of people in the U.S.. They would make sense. And they've gone to them quietly. They weren't able at this moment in time because we're not in a good play. The world is not in a good place. Financially. And so they said, all right, Goldman, morning Stanley. You guys go out there and find this other people. There's people in other parts of the world. But here's my, does that worry you? I mean, does that mean that maybe Liverpool is not as attractive as they thought it might be or maybe because of the recession and the context, economically. They said maybe the right time to it's tough to say. Look, it could also be something else. It could also be okay. John and Tom sit there and say, all right, we're probably going to have to inject another 50 million in cash each this year. Oh, wait. What if we could sell X percent of the club for somebody else to do that for us? Oh yeah, good idea. Why don't we try it? Worst thing comes to worse, we'll just reach in our own pockets and put that in, right? So I think that's part of the piece as well, right? It doesn't mean the sky is falling. It doesn't mean that John W Henry's living under the tea bridge in Boston. But it is relevant. We saw that with red bird as well, who red bird owned 11% of Fenway sports group. Obviously, they bought Milan for 1.2 billion. I think it's been reported and confirmed it. They didn't actually give 1.2 billion. They gave half of it. I did so much more than half, but they gave, but a portion of it, they borrowed, it's called the vendor loan, and it's not unusual. It's what happened with Newcastle as well, which was Amanda staley show. They borrowed it effectively from the person from the people who were selling them the club. And they'll kind of pay it back over time. It's kind of like kind of like when you buy a car, you've got car payments to me. So it's not because it's a bad investment. It's because this is the landscape right now for these people. So I wouldn't worry about it too much if I'm a Liverpool fan. I think the imperative for them is we want Liverpool to maintain their value. And we need to put money into it because if Liverpool become what arsenal were in that kind of fallow period where they're not making top four, they're not as relevant as they were. Then the value of Liverpool as a whole job. Drops, right? I wonder Trudeau Jules, they have made a commitment, John W Henry, after the Super League fiasco. He is essentially he apologized. He made that video. He made a commitment, superlative is not an option for us. Yeah. I mean, we mentioned the mistakes that they made at some point. That was one of them. The photo scheme was another one. They have to find them as well as they could. But specifically of the Super League because if you say we're not joining the Super League, you know, as long as I'm here. Yeah. You're making a commitment, perhaps even on behalf of the club. Now obviously another owner could come in and be like, of course. I don't care what John Henry said. I'm the boss. I'm the boss. Here we go. It's just the relationship with Liverpool fans is obviously very strong. I think the club to the fans and the fans in the club. We saw the backlash that those decisions created back then under the previous owners were also before with hicks in July. That was very toxic. So yeah, I think you're accountable as we said. Yeah, to your fans and why you've said before and now what you can do as well. So it'd be very interesting to see what happens in the Super League cases. Of course, as you mentioned earlier, and then take it from there. But you can't, you can't not expect maybe a new coming and having different views on the super link. Yeah, and I don't think you can rule that out. I mean, we saw it as well. He said, well, we don't need the Super League now. I don't even have a chance to give that interview. But I'm not putting anything off the table. It would be stupid to do that, right? From his perspective, fine. So yeah, I would tend to, I would tend to agree with you. If I'm a Liverpool fan, you sit tight, you wait. You need to lose this idea that, oh, we need to be bought by some billionaire from the goals to chuck money in. I don't think that business model sustainable. I don't think a business model is desirable. Yeah, before sitting python is your main financial over me. I'm talking a business model where you lose money every year.
ESPN FC
"fsg" Discussed on ESPN FC
"They have investors who could return on the majority of FSG shares are held, I think I might say by John W Henry and Warner. So it's not like it's not like it's not like it's a listed company that stock exchange where they have thousands of investors and they have to pay a dividend otherwise the stock market price goes down or whatever, right? So they can take a hit or buy longer, they can make decisions that other companies might not make. But ultimately, they need cash to run. And I think the issue of having cash on hand as opposed to just a positive balance sheet. I think those are two different things. Those are really, really important. So one way that people have looked at this is the game is just getting too expensive. We can not compete with Manchester United and Real Madrid have a structural or advantage. It's not that I don't want to get into a bigger club or whatever. But objectively, they are bigger brand and buy Munich. Yeah. Those are bigger brands who have exploited their brand, who have grown their brand for a long time, as opposed to, you know, I think it also matters where these people are. And I'm saying this is a nicest possible way, but Liverpool is not a wealthy city. Relative to Munich, say, it's not as big as these other cities like Munich or like the Munich is, it's the richest city in the richest part of the richest economy, or the biggest economy in Europe. Germany. So there's all these structural advantages. It's tough to compete with those guys. It's tough to compete with Paris and your man and city who have this availability of cash. At some point, we don't want Liverpool's value to go down if we can't keep putting in money. The value would go down if the team is not doing as well as they have been doing for the last 7 or 8 years, really. And the problem that is, you fall behind in terms of how much money you can invest in your team to buy players. Then you will start drop in. I think arsenal is perhaps an example of that. People used to make fun of van Gogh when he talked about the top four trophy or whatever. But the reality arsenal had what three years, four years outside the champion to the sunland in China. So that means that those four years, if you're not playing champion Zeke, you know, you're getting depending what your revenue is, you're getting sort of 15, 20% less each year, exactly. And so that means that as in, that means you either spend less, it means your owner has to support money in terms of equity, or it means that you or you means you have to take on debt. Some of your best buys are you would not want to sell, or you have to sell some of your best players, yeah. So you don't want to get into that situation. No. And I think FSG have done a lot of good things with that club that made mistakes, of course, and remember during the pandemic, some of the decisions maybe, but the training ground, the stadium, club. Of course, but even the team that want the Champions League and Monday for the first time in 30 years, they did good things. I think right now it feels like whether they sell the whole club or just have new investors, they feel like they need a bit of fresh blood coming in as well. Maybe to refreshing after 12 years is a long time. 200 football club to try to keep it at the top be consistently successful and although it's a long time, if you have new people coming in with maybe different ideas, money to invest in. Because let's not forget as well that they build this incredibly successful team also on the back of the cell phone Coutinho and the cell from Suarez. If you don't sell those two players at that time, I'm not sure how you build this quad that then won't you all those things. And now you don't have those assets anymore really in your team. Yeah, and you can't go and sell players at crazy inflated prices to Barcelona. Exactly. Yeah, and I also want to point something else out that broadly speaking football clubs make money in three different ways. They make money through stadium income. So in other words, by selling out the stadium, having luxury boxes, whatever they make money through commercial income and sponsorships, and they make money from prize money from what they get from their performances in the league and in the Champions League. Now, so in terms of commercial income and sponsorship, Liverpool have generated a lot of money around the world, of course, but they're not where around Madrid or Bayern are much as united are. But equally, there's a worldwide recession right now, right? Times are tough. So it's not, you're not going to run into that many companies are like, oh, yeah, sure. I'll cut you a 20 million check. So you can put my logo here, right? It's a lot tougher to do, which is also why we're seeing a lot of slightly weirdo sponsors, you know, we've talked about with full on with man city we've gotten a dolphin. TV right money, you might expect will stagnate. So the prize money is linked to the TV rights money. So the couple of things. So when the TV rights go up as a whole, that's obviously good for your club, but when they go out for a whole, you have to see how they go out for everybody in your league, right? And everybody in the Champions League. So that doesn't really move the needle. The question is how much can you keep out earning your rivals by finishing higher than in the league and so on and going further than the Champions League? Now they've done a great job of that. It's certainly not guaranteed. No. To do that, you need to have a good team on the pitch. It's really hard to keep that level. The other aspect though, I think, is also stadium income. And here I go back to Liverpool's geography, right? This is not one of the wealthier parts of England. They have 30 miles away. They have, for 35 miles away, they Manchester United, who remain a behemoth of a brand with tons of fans. They have Manchester City who've been phenomenally successful on their own doorstep. They have ever building a new stadium. Have a big fan base for all this idea that, oh, we have 700 million fans around the world. The fans will bring you the most money. Are the ones who show up to the game who, because they buy the tickets, the merchandise, the concessions, there's only so much you can squeeze your local fan base, right?
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"For every single person in here. You know, you work all year long, very hard to try and accomplish, winning a championship and we did that. I'm so excited. Hold down on Houston. In San Francisco, I met Baxter, this is Bloomberg. Right, Brian. Yeah, I heard that mattress Mack won many, many $1 million in the bet, something like $75 million, 75 million, yep. Unbelievable, but you know, he combined that with marketing in a kind of clever way, which was pretty interesting. No time now. 38 minutes past the hour it's time for sports. Dan schwarzman is looking at whether or not a storied Premier League club is up for sale. By the way, I was at that Houston prey banging on a trash can just so you all know. I know low, blow. Brian, you're right, sources are reporting that Fenway sports group looking to sell their controlling stake in Liverpool, 12 years after buying the story club for just 300 million pounds, both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been retained to help FSG find a buyer with estimates placing the value of the club at over 4 billion pounds. Talk about a return under the ownership of FSG, the reds have won every major trophy except the Europa League and ended a 30 year drop by winning the English title in 2020. In the only topley match of the day in Europe, Rio volcano stuns round Madrid three to two as Oscar trejo scores on a penalty in the 67th minute as Madrid can not overtake Barcelona for the top spot in the La Liga table. Madrid loses for the first time this season and currently sit two points back at the Catalan giants. Ravens and action on Monday Night Football Baltimore's on the road in New Orleans taking on the saints, ravens are 5 and three winners of three of the last four games are the same for three and 5 and are coming off a shutout win over the Raiders. Finally, colts have fired head coach Frank Reich after 5 years they've named former cold trade Jeff Saturday as the interim coach. I'm Dan schwarzman that your Bloomberg world sports update
Men In Blazers
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"Used to go a rubbish. So because obviously that's what we have to do. That's what we try. God, it's been fascinating to witness. This morning, FSG out was trending on Twitter. Yes, Liverpool fans demanding their American owners sell the club. It was one tweet, actually wrote it down. Somebody tweeted, we've suffered enough hashtag FSG out and I read it and I was like, oh my God. How I'd love to suffer that Liverpool fans for just one day because I am old enough to remember last season as a reds challenge for the quadruple. I actually remember talking at length jealously about just how much for Liverpool fans seem to have on an almost weekly basis and clock was marching towards the cop doing the fist bump thing after another win. And I was like, oh God, why can't I feel like that through football and look? Chewy is good in this world. I know it's controversial to say that happiness is good. And I do believe even as a horrible person, rod, whom you know, dear listeners and an Everton fan at that, that the world is dark enough for me to be pro joy wherever it can be found, so yes, a bemused clop, befuddled claw, a confused clop, I don't love to say it. Yet also the so bloody good, I do worry for Liverpool this weekend, and to that regard, I love this question. This is Michael czar from crystal Lake and any Arsenal fan over the age of two will tell you that we have no confidence going into this weekend. Mike Lazar, you beautiful Arsenal fan. Remind me of my favorite tweet that I read out on the pod this week from the Arsenal fan who exclaimed that his or her big worry now is that ocelot suddenly too good. Well, I'll say it's safe every second, make memories while you can. You guys, arsenal fanbase, you deserve every happiness. Perhaps the most asked question in the men in place is mailbag.
The Paul Finebaum Show
"fsg" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Is live today, the AP poll came out because of the labor day holiday. There was a little bit of change Georgia moving up from number three to the number two position, some other entrance in there. Michigan moved up a little bit. A and M, hanging tough, how about Florida? They went from nowhere to the top 12 in no time. Arkansas looking strong, Kentucky, all this in Tennessee finally made it in. They should have been in their preseason. And we welcome Greg McIlroy to the program great to have Greg Greg was on the call with Joe tessitore on Sunday Night and the question I have for you, Greg. It's probably the most important question. Is what was louder the reaction of the Florida state fans or Joe Tess's screaming. It's blocked. Blah. Blah. Blah. No, or the bruise I have on my arm, Paul, him punching me like this. I mean, if a big play happens in special teams, like special teams doesn't even exist in my world, but it's Tessa's Super Bowl. Anytime you have that, he loves it. So it was insane. Just the entire game was absolutely insane. I mean, he is a friend. He's your colleague and good friend, but I do think people can quibble about their favorite broadcasters, but in a big moment. I mean, there's nobody like Joe Tessa tour. I love him. You know, I mean, I've been really lucky to work with a lot of great play with play guys. Dave pash is one of my best Friends in the world. But Joe is too. You know what I mean? It's like, when he punches it, he goes. I mean, he can punch it. That's for sure. And he rubs his engine, man. He's got the pipes. I mean, he likes to talk about how he's got, you know, he's unbelievable. He says he can sing, you know, he says he can do all this stuff. I don't know if I believe it, but it's kind of sounds like it, like, his voice goes places where most people's voices just can't go. So I'm curious because in those big moments, I mean, you probably not really expecting that big of a moment. It's an extra point. So you're watching and you're thinking, okay, I mean, I'm sure I don't know. You tell me what you're thinking about, but what is it like when that happens and you know whatever is happening there is going to be replayed on every show the next morning. Well, I've always tried to have great restraint in that moment. Because it's not really, to be honest with you, Tess's reaction was great, but for the color guy, particularly like, you're not supposed to interject. It's supposed to be about the players and the reaction. And that's really the time. And that's what's so amazing about our truck and our whole crew. Like our crews phenomenal. Our audio guy, Andy's amazing, our director, Jeff Evers. Is incredible as well. And he's just cutting shots all over the place of unless you fans doing surrender cobra and FSG fans losing their minds. So like that's really more about the atmosphere that moment than it is anything else. But yeah, you just have to show restraint. And if you want to jump in, don't. If you think it's time to go, wait 30 more seconds and then jump in. Because that's a moment that should be captured and should feel raw as opposed to being covered up by the play by play in the color guy. How long was it from the moment the kick was blocked to the fact that you actually saying something? I didn't go back and time it, but it was probably, it might have been close to a minute. I mean, test was looking and we were trying to figure out who blocked it. That was the first thing. The spotter and we're looking at replays just like everybody else at home, trying to figure out who blocked it, what replays are good as they're capturing everything else. We're looking at our monitors up there like, all right, who got it? All right, number 38 got it perfect. Well, number 12 looks like he got a piece of it too. All right, so you're kind of going around. It was shaheen Brown floor state who had ultimately was credited with the block. But it was I mean, it was probably about a minute. But we're doing other things talking to the truck and stuff. There's a lot going on. I want you to call a game with us sometime, Paul. Would you do that? Like, come call a game with us. Yeah, and just I don't know what else to be the third analyst in the booth. I mean, I would just be cracking jokes because I would have no idea what truly going on. It would be, I think you would enjoy it though. I wish everyone could see what all is going on during a game in the broadcast booth. It's insane. It's like a 5 alarm fire all the time. And if we don't let it come out on the air that we did our job. But it is just pure chaos. I love it. I imagine it's a little bit like being an offensive coordinator and calling a game. Like where it's just nonstop, just bells and whistles going on all over the place. You just gotta focus on the task at hand. Talking to Greg mcelroy, so let's get you a takeaway on LA. There's so many things to consume there, but where do they go from here? I mean, it was kind of alarming. I don't really know how it's to describe it. I mean, I have a tremendous amount of respect for Brian Kelly. I have a tremendous amount of respect for this coaching staff. They are not a coaching staff that passes over the details. Like every single thing that they do is organized and thorough and the preparation that they have going into a game is pretty dang impressive. It really is. I've been around a lot of programs. And Brian Kelly runs a sharp program, very, very sharp. To see the amount of errors that were made, it was almost like they kind of built upon each other. And usually, you know, mistakes happen in the first game, but you don't have four game changing mistakes. That was alarming. And, you know, they're very correctable. I mean, all you got to do is catch a punt, right? That's two mistakes right there. They're protection, true freshmen at the end and field goal protection, extra point protection. He goes outside and the guy comes right inside. They're very fixable mistakes. So I'm not that concerned about those things, but to have that many on that big of a stage is something that would be a little bit concerning if I were Brian Kelly moving forward. Talking to Greg mcelroy, Greg, let me shift to this week and the big one in the country, of course, just Texas hosting Alabama. You know, Alabama, you're from Texas. It's a big game, and most people don't think it will be really worth watching. How does Texas make this interesting? Well, I think I agree. I think if we're going based off of personnel, if we're going based off of program culture, Texas has a remarkably big, big hill to climb.
Men In Blazers
"fsg" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Everyone clearly not including Everton fans. That is a lot of money for a 30 year old, but one who honestly seems to be fitter and fitter with every season. And you look at FSG with the Red Sox, they've always sought to avoid that big contract to the aging player. And there is the precedent of Obama Yang that kind of Uber star risk at arsenal that contract massive contract at a massive age and a declining asset. But how do you see it? They had to resign him. They had to resign him, and I think once again, great for the club. Great for the player. He is such an intelligent footballer despite his beguiling speed and skill set. You can't really see anything going wrong with him for a few more years. Footballers and their health regimes now. It's almost like 30 is the new 20. And you look at me as a finisher, he can score so many different kinds of goals. He can hurt teams. In so many different ways, he's kind of player that will only adapt as he ages a little light LeBron changing his game is elite game to work out how to constantly play to his strength, maintain his output. Adding this is a double win for Liverpool football club most days and the distraction of no stay or go has now been muted and I'm trying to bright side it. There isn't much bright side for Everton fans and I'll just say I for one am just glad that it's not a really let's go to Tottenham now where new signing rich Alison is no doubt lamenting the lack of condiments, but plentiful cigarette smoke, billowing in from his manager's adjacent room at the Tottenham lodge. With another team having the transfer window really cut from their dreams, Tottenham Hotspur, they vote incredible to win this, almost a miracle at Tottenham, the miracle being, Daniel Levy, the man who starved pochettino out of Tottenham. Got them to the Champions League Final. And could not persuade them to leave it to buy him a single player,
Ringer FC
"fsg" Discussed on Ringer FC
"Same thing at Dortmund, you know? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The fact that he asked his agent to then speak to FSG and see if they were interested in extending. Now, the timing could not be better fame. Absolutely. He's an all timer. He's an author. Without question and it's funny because when Klopp didn't win a couple of the early finals, I remember there were members, you know, just different different fans about different clubs were mocking it. And I was like, I know fear when I see it. It's so interesting what fans make fun of. And they generally make fun of things. That they're afraid of. And with Klopp, early clock, it was like, oh my God, they messed up in that final night. They lost the severe and Europa League final. That's severe. That's like football royalty. They shouldn't even be there. They shouldn't even be in that final act. For them to have won that would have been like last stage, yeah. Exactly. So I was like, and I had chats lots of friends about this, like lots of united fan friends, and I was like, this is bad. This is very bad. But why we'll say from an unbiased perspective? I just love his outlook. I love the way he coaches players improves them year on year. And what our service this actually, what I really like about Guardiola and Klopp is. They have helped to shift the perception that the first thing you do in a team is struggling to sack the manager. They've helped shift that because if you look at clock clock has been at what Dortmund he was longer serving dopamine, I think. He likes to get stuck into things, right? You know, we call them projects with a cynical phrase, but actually I think you can say it's fair to say it's a project in the sense of if the project is to align, as you said, those elements, you know, fans players manager and city. That's his project. He's been successful at that at every single place. And looking at someone like Klopp and the way that he improves players, I wanted that's empowered other clubs to kind of be like well actually let's place more of an emphasis on coaching because if you look at the huge signings, right, you look at like the investment in club and how much is contractors cost and his team as well for like sake of argument. And if you look at Ryan, the huge money signings be like 50 million plus signings and how many of those signings have actually flopped. It is a safer investment a better investment. Just having an incredible coach. Yeah, it absolutely is because also we've talked about this before and especially in the modern game where it feels like the clubs that can genuinely win stuff on the regular is becoming the pool of clubs is becoming smaller and smaller. I think especially for a city like Liverpool and a club like Liverpool, I think this is what is making the Everton struggles even starker in contrast because they kind of had that.
Men In Blazers
"fsg" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"I mean, that's how I feel about tomorrow with Bill Royale. I'm going to watch the match with you with my hands over my eyes going out dear God, are we going to do it or are we going to blow it? Where are you from? I wish it was a latter. I fear it's going to be the former, but where are you from in real life? Where are you originally from before? I'm actually from Joplin, but I have members of my family who I've tracked my lineage and their English. That's incredible. I just love that born and bred in Joplin, Missouri, and just the anxiety, the apprehension that your drama, all of that, I just adore America in every regard. Here's what I would say. I take the podcast of Rory Smith last night Liverpool and the quadruple. What a feat and just pop yourself on mute for a sec, because I think there's a huge poltergeist who is trying to mold your makeup out. But as I was listening to Rory's answer, which was beautiful, Rui was trying to contextualize just what an incredible feat that quadruple is. We've been, we've been talking about the quadruple for 8 weeks, is it now? And when we started to talk about it, it was more like an academic possibility that football heads love to Tokyo. There's still a possibility of the quadruple that it was kind of like talking about. Maybe if I coin Mount Everest, I'll see the Yeti or maybe if I follow the rainbow while find the crocodile at the end like you know you're not going to ever do either of those two things but you kind of have to say it. That's what the quadruple felt like it felt fantastical. Unicorns, it felt like that kind of pretty wonderful and damaged world that doesn't exist in reality. The ridiculous thing is, my God, they have, they have proceeded to pursue it with a hunger and a ferocity and overwhelming potency. Even when they've not played well there will themselves to glory and so you're talking as if you didn't just look Manchester City in the eye and the semifinal and often with a confidence in the verve. Well, I'm hearing Christina is I'm hearing just any fans fear the night before the game. And the reality is we do not know when I listen to Rory talk about the quadruple. I did switch off as he was speaking as saying, ha, wouldn't it be really funny if they just end up with a caravan cup and the carabao carefully. And that was horrible. And that was an awful thing. That was the awful me speaking, but the crazy thing about the quadruple is, well, a that we're talking about it at all. That's crazy, but you can not switch off for .01 seconds because at this level, at this point in the season, fatigue, exhaustion, mental exhaustion, even the tiniest mistake will be punished. As we saw tonight from Manchester City and so don't agonize because we do not know when the agonizing will not help you, it's all going to be about the mental focus down the stretch. I never thought this was possible what we're witnessing. And again, not to be too dark, it's kind of possible because of greatness because of FSG's savvy as owners because of crops, CEA, light leadership, because of the just a remarkable scouting recruitment and the execution of the players. It's also because of the financial inequity within British football that these teams are now making this. But let's not go to that door call. I'll just say I never thought this was possible to even make it this latest bonkers Christina starts enjoy every single second and Josh and Missouri and will speak next week and see how you're feeling that. Godspeed. It's right there. My favorite kind of burger is a loot burger. By this way you are Frankie and watch your question. Here I should honor to speak to you. I know we exchanged a couple of emails before. So yeah, I'm from Jersey City, New Jersey, just across the Hudson. Oh, gorgeous. I know we've never been on the map since the Cinderella story, right? Don't know what you're talking about, but I'm gonna not. Saint Peter's university. Yeah. Right? That's incredible. It's just around the corner for me. So it's really down the street. Have you got a mustache? No, I don't. But I should, I know, I know dog has won. Yeah, that's enough, yeah. This is where you're from originally Frank Luke burger. Yeah, I'm from Germany originally. So yeah. Heidelberg region, but I'm a British Dortmund fan and a Liverpool fan as well. But truly actually hoping to have immersive site Derby next season. I'm truly believe in that. You're a beautiful man. That is a kindness that will make me shut up and ask you for your question. But I want to, before I come to my question, I wouldn't really.
Men In Blazers
"fsg" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Across to England and together, savor this? Next question. Raj. This is Nick from Egan, Minnesota, and I am a spurs supporter. Just got done watching Everton versus Newcastle. So happy the toffees pulled that one out. In the past, you've mentioned this mindset of some supporters would rather see a rival lose than their own club win because they're rooting for the emotional turmoil to be inflicted on the rival fan base. Well, what do you call it when you're rooting for some joy and excitement for another club fan base? As I said, I'm not an Everton fan, but I have friends who are toffee supporters. And as a fan of your show, I hate seeing you upset. And I just want you to be happy watching football. So what name would you give this phenomenon, courage? Nick, you were beautiful human being. You know, the words you're looking for, the phenomena. I think that would be called empathy, my friend, empathy, and well, I love you cool for so many reasons, but yes, football needs more empathy. And I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or because the world's becoming darker and full of savage, human struggles. But I found that the sense of willing defeat and failure on others has really diminished for me. You know, I'm going to be honest. I don't hate clop. I do respect the rise of Trent Alexander Arnold. You know, a kid who watched Liverpool train through a hole in the fence and dreamt about Premier League glory and then join that team led that team and delivered that glory. I also respect the way FSG have built a team that can truly compete with the world's best. Without having to pump in Petro dollars or nation state money, look for me. The world's dark and full of terrors and one of the many reasons I love being a football fan here in the United States of America is because the fandom here is mostly Shaun of geography. You know, most American Premier League fans are not cheering for a local team. And living through that locality and presenting their cities pride to the world in an us against them fashion, we just marvel at the game and so we can savor the humanity or we can save the glory. Yes, we experience the pain of defeat, but the hate. The parochial hate the anger, the zero sum game, the us or them, the black and white, the whataboutism. It's far, far, far less prevalent here, and I think. We're all the better for it. So a final bud to a football built on love and empathy and respect as often as possible. This may be my favorite Budweiser of the week like many of you last night. I did marvel in the basketball as tiny Saint Peter's with their guard dog Eddie looks so like a proper burly midfielder and their coach shaheen Holloway, who was asked right in the moment of his overtime victory by an incredulous sideline reporter Bruce game. She asked, don't you ever get nervous? And I love this response. Did you ever get nervous? No. For what? Look at you. For what? It's basketball and in the same vein for what? It's football. It's soccer. It's Premier League. It's FA Cup is NWSL whatever. Whatever happens, even though it feels so real and so powerful in the second..
Men In Blazers
"fsg" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"You're listening to the men in blazers media network. Suboptimal radio. Yeah, I think there's probably a stigma. I'm not sure Ted Lasso helped. From the men in blazers studios in the crap part of Bedford, New York, and the crap part of West Hollywood, California. It's the men in places podcast roger. We back like LeBron James wild, wild day's day, geo P Tom Hanley, Ruiz, a reva which really captured the turmoil of the times we live in when he wrote I missed the simpler days when Diego Costa seemed like the worst man in the world. Yeah. Yeah, different definition of evil. Oh, roger. At this stage, more than naive. Exactly. Well, we've still got José Mourinho, roger. We've still got Jose. What a three through a bib José Mourinho, that's just what chaos democracy in peril. I mean, we should begin. I mean, this is just, I guess we gotta unpack the ongoing spiraling storylines at Chelsea, but first we must address the darkness in Mexico Saturday night, conflicting reports of exactly what happened in the ramifications as we pod. The extent of them, all we can say for sure is horrific scenes at the game between Atlas and K ray turret, which was suspended in the second half after fans burst out the stands and just began to attack each other with knives, with chairs, with metal rods, any object at hand, the footage appeared to show at last fans just being beaten, savagely. And official reports currently have 26 injured and no deaths, many journalists are questioning those numbers, Lee get MX has been suspended, belatedly, but it was all just, it was a human horror to witness David. Yeah, it's awful. I mean, you know, we have a tendency to think that we've gone through the dark days of fan violence. The 19 70s, 1980s, were particularly awful. This was something else I'm in the scenes captured on a series of mobile phones were just awful. And it just reminds everybody is this sort of this sort of fine balancing point, this fulcrum between super fandom and violence, passion that just sort of overflows into hatred just horrific for any football fan to watch that. It's just terrific. You know, they've been caused for FIFA to investigate, seeing as Mexico is set to co host the 2026 World Cup. But I will say David, for me, the images of kids being rushed out of the stadium. By their panic parents, many of whom ripped the Atlas tops off their own children so that they would not be subject to the random acts of violence are so harrowing kids for whom football which should be a joy and which will be a trauma now for an extended period that is perhaps most harrowing of all and some pivot into really a week of ongoing darkness because we have to address up top the continued fallout of the Ukraine invasion. I should say, I did find it incredibly touching. I don't know about you, Dave, very watching the Premier League, the first game of the weekend, Lester leads a solidarity with Ukraine was more before kick-off. We've often said, often said, too often now, to note that football is the most important least important thing, but the Premier League is the world's biggest platform and it means a lot to see the message of connection and solidarity with Ukraine beamed around the world, especially. Is that that first game? Both sets of fans joined together to simultaneously and instantaneously sing Putin is a bastard. That seemed an appropriate response on an appropriate message. I mean, look, I, of course, it is the word heartwarming or I don't know what the word is to watch these, these moments of solidarity, these statements of togetherness, football coming together, but this pales into insignificance between, you know, what is really going on in Ukraine right now. And I hope that football can do something. I'm an eternal optimist, as you know, roger, but I just, I just wonder. And so as we sit on the precipice of an even worse conflict, it just is alarming to me. And it's all of that is in my mind as I'm watching these statements of solidarity. You know, everything we thought we knew, everything we thought was a fact, everything we thought was a hard and fast given. If anything, this is a football podcast and so we do look at things and things in the broadest way possible I hope, but they are through a football lens and this just really a weekend that profound fragility for the Premier League, Chinese rights holders refused to broadcast coverage of any of the matches this weekend because of these planned public demonstrations of support for Ukraine. And looking at it through that news, just that massive Premier League bubble that we've lived through for the past two decades propped up by financial sources some from let's say this is a euphemism as we will discuss in a minute precarious places. Nothing seems as permanent long-term as it did even two weeks ago as we will discuss. I do believe the future of the Premier League is going to be a lot more American equity investors increasingly dominant less eternally bottomless, fleshy wallets. The FSG model, I do believe it's going to be increasingly the model forward for Premier League clubs, which brings us to a two Chelsea. We will talk about the game against Burnley separately for now we should touch upon the ongoing sale of the club. We are witnessing the last days of Roman Abramovich as a Premier League owner and despite his public pronouncement earlier last week that this will be an orderly strategic careful sale one English newspaper wrote..
Unofficial Partner Podcast
"fsg" Discussed on Unofficial Partner Podcast
"But the market values them at ten times what they value moldable not twenty times in the case of some of those tens or hundreds of billions. So your point. There is being asked a financial level. What the club. What football club as an asset and a businessman. And i think you know the the next wave of of sales clubs in the uk. It's interesting we've we have to drivers before we we had a few american investors. Be probably will that the franchise model was gonna take off air in europe pretty soon. So that's that's probably. Why definitely why john. Henry i think in jail on a red sox fan understand the american kind of franchise model really well. I'm probably so liverpool as as a kind of good toehold in probably quickly become a franchise model in the uk as you say the glazer fsg and redbird going into french clubs have been sold on the story that in some point but will clubs are going to be valued because they are more similar to silicon valley type products. And i'm wondering if that is ever going to be the case now. I don't think they have the same economic base. A tour i think the platform the economics platforms are about being highly scalable blitz scaling to us. I think read hoffman's tom. Highly scalable platforms where exponential growth doesn't aligned to exponential costs you can gain exponential growth in a business whilst your costs remained more or less linear inside the gap. In between his way you get dynastic wealth from basic coming in generally. It is time to this day. Was the two sided market where basic your platform ends up. Being something that to different people need a new all the platform which they do business. So you're not responsible. For providing the services you mandate a market in which they tried side delivery is market not connects Gig workers who won all pass canetti. Gal wanna get to politics Delivery done easing myself but basically on one side. You've got gig workers wanting a very kind of open relationship to catch a whack on the gulf smooth and sometimes large food brands. who want to deliver the. I'm done have a platform to do it. A delivery platform in the middle of the tooth connects the drivers and it connects customers and it connects the kind of thing so basically it ties. It will often take that call the middle yuba was the same. It was taste. It monkey between people wanting lifts individual drivers and it just hit the. That's that whole kind of legal and political argument is that they owned responsible. What happens on this on the platform. They are merely providing hatful net. Nabil's transactions take place and that. Rotorua facebook says about his platform. Thing else football clubs votes cubs a note to sided moncus. They are responsible for providing the content at exponential cost an exponential Very high cost to the audience. If not merely shells free which to.
Starcastic Remarks-The Only Dallas Stars Fan-Led Podcast
"fsg" Discussed on Starcastic Remarks-The Only Dallas Stars Fan-Led Podcast
"Christian has ago and this evening. It's going amazingly good league good He didn't use fantastic lee. This time. i'm a little shocked. It's not fantastic. Halo everybody welcome to start casting remarks along with chris chambers my brother i am ryan and you have entered the realm of the dallas stars. we talked about anything and everything dallas stars hockey and sometimes whatever we want to and we are very sarcastic or of the time so i honestly you don't live in our family or exist in our family. Unless you're like super sarcastic right would you. Would you agree with that. It's fair who's the most are kademi. No that's not fair at all moms. Probably the most are cast got the what will intended to include. Amanda so may just put sarcastic too. Okay anyway You know this has absolutely nothing to do with the dallas stars but it would be a a thing if we didn't mention this Just because of how big is in the sports world so today six premier league teams in the english football league. Premier league Among six other teams twelve total have mentioned that they are going to try and create a new league called the european super league and right now that seems to be taking the world by storm and It seems the majority of commentators and fans and you know social media. What i've seen is that this is very much a very bad thing for the game of soccer slash football Have you done much reading up on this chris or do you have any real opinion on it yet. Yeah i did. I did a little bit. I talked to seth who's a big soccer night kinda watch. I'll watch the the last couple of games this season sometimes but yes seems pretty bad. So the best analogy. I've seen that. It is is like you take like bama clemson in notre dame in texas from college football and they only play each other and that's it and the national championship is committees. Just going to pick from those teams so that sounds like a really bad way to make the sport more competitive so well also. What a stupid name. The super league. Yeah kidding me awful. They could have picked anything other than super league. But that's what they went with so And these are not just like you know little teams. i mean. this is manchester united arsenal I i think there's a couple of la liga teams on this too right. I think real madrid's in on this so there's so there's twelve teams that are confirmed but apparently there's another three that have not come out yet to you. Know accept the invitation to the super league and there's a lot of blowback on this. I mean I was. I was driving from dallas today. And you know driving didn't have much to do so. I was listening to a bunch of youtube videos and commentary on this and from from it. Sounds like it almost like it. Sounds like they're americanizing. It a little bit. If does that make sense. 'cause he no it's worse though. I mean think of the way professional sports work over there right. And i'm not trying to back this up at all because i think this is a bad a bad thing but it's almost like over there. I if you think about it in. Nhl terms right you. You've got the nhl the ahl the joe right case for those of you. That don't watch soccer or football over over there. You know the way it works. Is that the three worst teams in the top league..
Esports Minute
Despite Soft Launch, NRG's New Full Squad Gaming Brand Blew Up on TikTok
"Podcasting digital media and video programs. Please reach out to e-sports network CEO Mark dimmick using the email in the bio of the show the balance of power between competitive teens and gaming influencers is always interesting to look at four major sports organizations back in December energy brought out a new brand but the early growth happened naturally separate from the energy family. The first tick Tok on full Squad gaming page just says, hey, I'm Brady and this is Jennifer and Ben were on your for you page because this week we quit our jobs to start our very own gaming company. There's no mention of energy anywhere. It's also not mentioned in the bio or the logo of the tic toc Channel Energies. Is however the top comment on almost every single video on the page as they're always quick to it as you can imagine and I want to be clear. It's not like energy is hiding anything here. They just took a chance by not immediately incorporating them renamed to create a more authentic approach and it's worked out really well full Squad is over six hundred thousand followers in under one month Sports Business Journal is Adam Stern post an article yesterday and the connections between energy and full Squad gaming and that's the first major coverage in Esports. Although tube filter also wrote about this back in December energy. CEO Andy Miller said in a text to Adam Stern quotes are low-key soft large plans for FSG got turned on their head from day one. When our Tik Tok videos went viral and the full Squad account ballooned to six hundred and thirty thousand followers in the first weeks off instant audience discovering our other social platforms and our content is Off to the Races a link the article below the show. It's a good read and certain deserves credit for really highlighting these trends when other Publications were not on top of this page. Take away from this is just how insane Tik Tok is for gaming content full Squad also launched on YouTube and Instagram, but neither platform is crossed 100K yet. That's still good. Of course, but the insane following jump from Tik Tok is basically unmatched on other social platforms looking through their Tik Tok videos. There was one indication the new company had a big backer and that was the appearance of San Francisco 49ers starred in Eric Armstead scoducks. By the way, he appeared as part of a series called play yourself or big athletes do exactly what the name suggests they play as themselves in the sports them that they competed in real life that's going to suck a big