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25:58Julien Laurens:It was a question about you know his time in Ligue 1 and he said what people didn't really understand. I understand that and I understand also from a PR perspective look the reality about you Pochettino is that you're in the US right so nobody in Europe anyway is paying any attention to you they will during the World Cup they'll judge you on that. so if every time you come out people are going to bring out snippets nobody's going to i mean unless you read the keep obviously but most people don't they're going to see the headlines that i saw which is about him bringing up a spot with terry henry from five years ago which makes you seem petty i think he needs to be more careful in how he expresses himself that's all i'm saying barcelona being linked with a summer move for alessandro bastoni gab you know i love my left footed center bags yes the giant bastoni next to the little darting pau cuvarsi that'd be pretty sexy like he's 27 years old in april if barcelona had a ton of money wanted to make the team better i think it would make a lot of sense do they have the money i'm not 100 sure not if they're talking about rashard and blah blah blah i think they need to put resources in the back maybe it's not bastoni maybe they would want 80 million 100 million or whatever for him maybe that's not the right thing to do but you have to put the resources there and bastonia by the way i think is intelligent enough, even though he's mostly played in a three, to know that he can play the high line with Kubarsi maybe a little bit better than the people who are doing it now.

27:17Paris Saint-Germain have asked the French League to postpone their big game against Lons, which is going to play a really big part, potentially. It could knock Lons out, de facto. The lead right now, Paris Saint-Germain have a one-point lead, but they have a game in hand. But this tie falls in between the two Liverpool legs.

27:40Julien Laurens:That's right, yeah. That's why they're asking for the game to be postponed, like they did with their previous game against Nantes. That was between the two Chelsea ties. Strasbourg, who also are still in Europe, play Mainz in the Conference League. I've also asked for their league game against Bres to be postponed. So they have a weekend off, basically, in between the two European legs. Leeds, um, Lens don't want to move that game. Obviously, as you can imagine, they're not in Europe, but they don't want to move that game. The problem for them is it's not their decision. It's the league that will decide.

28:14Julien Laurens:There will be a vote with all the clubs and, and they will vote about it. They're meeting right now, supposedly. Yeah, today. It's a bit later, but today. Yeah. So we will see, I think it'd be disastrous for the league to start with, if they agree to this. If they agree to move it. To move it. Yeah. So you're with Josef, not with the team you supported ever since you were Liverpool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I can understand why PSG wanted to move, obviously. But from a league's point of view, because you have the decision, ethically, in terms of image, everything, for all the followers of Ligue 1, and we're trying to get more and more followers, this would be such a bad decision to take.

28:51Julien Laurens:The interesting thing in this is that if PSG qualify against Liverpool and this game gets postponed, they would only have there's only one window to play this game again later in the season so if PSG qualify for the semifinal and play Bayern or Real Madrid for example whatever game they have in between those two legs cannot be moved anymore because there's no other windows so they've chosen this one more maybe than the potential game between two semifinal legs to postpone it's also because I think they know that Lance is a hell of an opponent obviously they've been the best team in the league this season and that's a very tricky game to navigate in between the two already tricky games against liverpool paris and germain would also say look um it's good it'll be good for the for the francis uefa club coefficient we'll move up we might get more teams in europe they qualify yeah that's their argument there's a real politic argument too which is a lot of these teams make more money from europe than they do from ligand right now given what happened with the television contract.

29:53But yeah, I'm 100 % with you. They should not move it.

29:55Julien Laurens:The Athletic report that Liverpool have abandoned plans to acquire a second club and move to a multi-club ownership model. Gab, there's a suggestion that this might impact Michael Edwards' future. Yeah, so the logic was that Michael Edwards agreed to come back because he laid out a plan where they would have gone to a multi-club ownership model like Manchester City, like Strasbourg. And now he may not want to stay. I mean, given the way things have turned out this season, it might be Liverpool that might not want Michael Edwards to say. In terms of the second club, the clubs they were looking at are not second clubs.

30:30Those are first clubs. I mean, they're smaller clubs in Liverpool, obviously, but they spoke to Monaco. They looked at Getafe. They looked at Malaga. I don't think this works unless there's an actual real gap, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to begin with. There's enough other people doing it. people are moving some people are moving away from it yeah so i think it's good that liverpool aren't doing this and you know michael headwins is a very smart guy but i think he showed that he was able to make liverpool successful without a second club then you know you can do it again kilian mbappe has denied reports from rmc sport in france uh suggesting real madrid misdiagnosed his knee injury by this is going to sound weird by performing an mri on the wrong leg Jules, this is a really weird story.

31:18Daniel Riolo, the guy who reported it, is highly respected and generally well-connected, right?

31:22Julien Laurens:Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's my colleague on RMC. It's a weird one. I mean, as we talked about it on the FC show on Tuesday night with Craig and Frank, when you do an MRI on your knee, a lot of listeners probably would have never done it. they put like a massive uh coil on your knee on the injured knee you can't just go into the machine like this and then they scan you and surely kylian mbappe would have said hang on guys if they put the call on the wrong knee they would say hang on my pain is in the other one not this one but you often have your headphones in maybe he was listening to music maybe he's listening to so i think maybe i think there's there's some truth in it in the in the fact that not so sure about the MRI and again I tried to get this story confirmed and I could not get it confirmed.

32:13Julien Laurens:I'm not saying it's not true, I just didn't get it confirmed. There's probably some truth in the poor diagnostic made by Real Madrid medical staff that have been sacked since by the way. And Kylian on the record said that on Monday night when he said that he got the diagnosis really late after the injury which kind of annoyed him and rightly so because because I think he played before that because the medical staff said to him that he basically had nothing and the pain would go, which was not the case. So I don't really believe in this MRI story itself per se, but I do think that the medical staff at Real Madrid got his injury wrong completely.

32:52I don't think there's any question. I also think if you're Mbappe, you're intelligent enough to know, even if the MRI story were true right now, you would not come out and say it. There's nothing to be gained. Yeah.

33:01Julien Laurens:Senegal have officially filed that appeal with CAF, the court of arbitration for sports, after CAF, remember, ruled that they had forfeited the final of AFCON against Morocco and declared Morocco the winners. What are the chances, do you think, to overturn it? I actually think their chances are pretty good because the consensus seems to be among a lot of sporting legal minds. They seem to disagree with me. They seem to say that, in the end, what matters is they came back to finish the game. I don't think it's fair. I think when you leave for that long, you should forfeit the game. I also think after 58 days, I think it's idiotic to give the cup to Morocco, just declare it vacant.

33:42But I think they have a very good chance. That's my reading of the current zeitgeist. Harry Maguire is reportedly in talks with Manchester United for a one-year extension to his current deal, which expires in June, Jules. Good idea to extend him?

33:55Julien Laurens:I mean, you know I'm not a fan. Please, I let him go. He's happy. He's playing a little bit better. He can find another club and finish his career there. Jürgen Klopp apparently does not enjoy being linked to Real Madrid, Gab.

34:31humor. The guy, you know, it's easy to forget. Klopp is still German. But yeah, dude, like, like you should be honored that they're still thinking of you. Avoiding your unfinished home projects because you're not sure where to start? Thumbtack knows homes, so you don't have to. Don't know the difference between matte paint finish and satin? Or what that clunking sound from your dryer is? With Thumbtack, you don't have to be a home pro. You just have to hire one. You can hire top-rated pros, see price estimates, and read reviews all on the Thumbtack app. Download today. In today's world, planning ahead isn't always top of mind, but not having life insurance can leave families facing difficult financial uncertainty during already emotional times.

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36:21Julien Laurens:Jules, they agreed the fee. He had the medical. What happened? Well, I'm not really sure. I don't really understand what this, but basically they said they could not agree over responsibility for the player, for when the player would be transferred. So the thinking is, when does he become effectively a Fulham player? I think PSG Eindhoven says, okay, you can have him June or July 1st, or would you have him, but then the World Cup's already started. What happens if he gets injured at the World Cup? So it's one of those, it had to do with the liability. And it was funny because, so Ernie Stewart former US men's national team coach he's the sporting director he made he sort of explained these are his words he kind of explained this to me it makes no sense that you can't reach an agreement that it can't just be over whether he gets injured after the World Cup then for me he will still play for Fulham it won't be a problem but it's just I mean to be fair it's a bit weird to do it now anyway I think yeah that struck me as odd too Casemiro has been linked with a move that would seem John Lionel Messi at Inter-Miami.

37:25Julien Laurens:Does that make sense to you, Gab? From an Inter-Miami point of view? No. It makes zero sense. Look, they don't have a DP position anyway, so I doubt that he will go there. Maybe Rodrigo De Paul comes back? No, that's not going to happen. Wait, wait. Surely Luis Suarez is going to eventually... He's not a DP. Oh, that's right. He's not. That try, that is signing the summer, Messi and De Paul. No, I don't think it makes sense. He may, like, well, look, it'll be fun. Let's go to Miami. In MLS, even if you don't like MLS, you have people who run around all day long. Yeah, but he can still run around.

38:03Julien Laurens:We see that with United States. I don't know. He's getting older. I'm not going to bring in Casemiro for his passing, right? Even though he's had a good season this year, right? And he's not going to run around as, I mean, I can find some other 22-year-old dope who can run around as much as Casemiro at his age, right? So, no, I would not put my resources. We saw how well it worked out for Busquets when he went, right? So what's the point? Ernesto Valverde has announced he will leave Athletic Bilbao in the summer, Jules. Yeah, this feels like a bit of the season too many, really, or too much. He should have probably stopped at the end of last season.

38:41Julien Laurens:They haven't been great. They've had bad injuries to Sunset and to Nico, and they haven't really gone going. The Champions League was a disappointment, really. Sunset's been really bad even when he's going to fit yeah yeah but after not qualifying I mean that long without Champions League it was finally back at San Mames and they didn't do well at all and that was obviously a problem same for the league and yeah you still have the Cubs but again the semi-finals didn't go there well at all in the Copa del Rey so but still a club legend obviously you know played for them and then managed them took them back near the top qualifying them for the Champions League.

39:21Julien Laurens:The trophy draw, obviously, is there, but 500 games, is that right, at the end of the season? By the end of the season, he's going to be at 500 games. And, you know, obviously, winning the Copa del Rey after 40 years. Exactly. His place in history. And I also think, you're right, maybe it was a season too long, but it also takes some humility to know, all right, I really, it's time for me to stop. Give somebody else a go. UEFA will not consider the request made by several Premier League clubs to expand Champions League squads to 28 players. Gab, do you like this? Yes, it's stupid. I think they should actually reduce it from 25.

40:00Because look, already, it's not like with 25 players, you only have 25 players, right? Because youth team players don't count against the total. That's why if you go, I love doing this, I go on the UEFA website, Chelsea started doing this. They took, I think, everybody over the age of 10 who plays for Chelsea. There's a billion names. Then Arsenal went and did the same thing, which makes it really difficult for me because I have to scroll through a million names as I go through there, and then sort through the Maldini Kakouris and people like that. No, look, this would simply, I think it would allow clubs who are not good at handling their resources and who are stuck with an older player, like, oh no, we have to leave them off the thing.

40:41It would limit opportunities for younger players, which is not what you want. and I think it would simply make the playing field even more uneven than it is because people would just hoard talent even more than they already do. So if anything, personally, I would reduce it. I would reduce it to 23 players or something like that. You know, you have your academy, use it. Let's go to the Women's Champions League quarterfinal first legs, Jules. Lauren James' wonder goal. Not enough for Chelsea and they fall 3-1 to Arsenal.

41:13Julien Laurens:Yeah, that's true. And we'll talk about the controversial decisions from the referee in the next question. But on this one, it's a big defeat for Sonia Bonpastor and Chelsea. It's not finished and they will have the second leg at Stanford Bridge next week. We're on back-to-back Champions League weeks now in the women's game as well. Arthur Arsene were very good in that first half. Lovely, lovely goal. Curler with her left foot from Laurent James is making it look so easy as well. Which, by the way, that was ridiculous. When I sigh, I said, oh a lob oh goalkeeper too short she can't get there no no no he's not a lob no it is it is a curler at pace I think the referee can't believe how precise it is yeah amazing goal surgical that's how good she is anyway even if we haven't seen it enough probably this season or even in the last two years so that second leg Aston Farbridge will be very exciting on Wednesday can I ask you about Chelsea also and bump us in the background because there was a story I think it broke over the weekend I think it was in the Times we had Robbo on and Robbo doesn't follow women's football as close as you do.

42:14But there's unrest at Chelsea because the guy who'd been running the women's team for a long time has left the club. He was replaced by another guy where the guy from the Times actually wrote, of whom little is known, that's how they described him. Right. Which I think is not fair to him. But there's suggestion, Guru Wright and leaving. The Samantha Kerr possibly leaving. Also the Millie Bright, the big center half. Yeah. They're both in their 30s. There's a suggestion that Chelsea women's team might now follow the script of the Chelsea men's team, which is just acquiring young talent. Right. Would that mean women's football would lose another, potentially lose another big European club that can compete with Barcelona and Arsenal and City?

43:03Julien Laurens:Yeah, maybe. Although they still have a great squad right now. I mean, Kerr is not a starter anymore, and I don't think she should be either. So don't tell her, don't tell her that. No, no, but bright a bit the same. So I've got no issue if they think that those players are just not good enough anymore to start for Chelsea. And so then why extend them? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. As you know, managing maintenance, repair and operations is never easy. But for the ones who always rise to the challenge, Granger has your back. From professional grade products you can count on to fast, dependable delivery.

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44:24Julien Laurens:So sticking with that game gap, Sonia Bonpastor was angry at the end after the referee, after two Chelsea goals were disallowed. She said there's a lack of respect for the women's game. Yeah, so the referee in this one was... So there's two things. On the two goals. So the second goal that was disallowed was Kadisha Buchanan. She basically karate kicks the Arsenal goalkeeper, Anika Borba. You cannot do that. This one is not... That shouldn't even be in the debate. On the first one, Fairle Berman goes up for a header. There's a defender, Laia Khadina, challenging her. The referee blew up straight away and called a foul.

45:05Now, what I'm not clear on is... Sorry, she said, oh, there was nothing there, right? Her hand is on the defender's shoulder. And it doesn't need to be because she jumps higher and she's taller as well. When you do that, you always put yourself in danger. But leaving that aside, she said, when she's talking about lack of respect, this has been a long-running issue. Who should referee the Women's Champions League games? should it be women referees or should it be the best referees available yeah i think you have taken a strong line saying no no we want to develop women referees as well we want to give them the opportunities right so this woman alina pace well again i'm not familiar with i don't follow this but she has refereed men's games and she is in the group she is among the elite referees you can say she had a bad game but it's not like what were you telling me like oh no let's have anthony taylor officiate this because referees don't matter right no if you're going to go and give women opportunities in the game of football referees are part of it so focus about how you can train them simple truth of the matter is jules there are far far far fewer the proportion of women referees to men's referees is even much much smaller than the proportion of women's footballers to men's footballers so there is going to be a gap yeah so i i don't know i i didn't like it when you talk about lack of i know she's obviously at sixes or sevens right now because things aren't going great on your bumper store but i think she let herself down a little bit there valksburg without alexandra pop uh beat lyones one nil thanks for deflected lineth uh berenstein goal jules you were there i from the highlights i watched it seemed like they were a little bit

46:47Julien Laurens:fortunate yes and no uh yes because leon had a lot of chances the morning should have scored in second half, Danny hit the post. But I also think that Wolfsburg had a game plan that they executed really, really well. They had that back five and that low block very compact. And O.L. Lyon really struggled at times to find how to break through it. And as soon as they recovered the ball, they went so fast forward so quickly in transition. It was really good to see on another day could finish 1-1 without problem at all, because Wolfsburg also had some decent chances of their own. But yeah, it's a disappointing defeat.

47:25Julien Laurens:It's the first one for Eulion before the second leg next week at home and I expect them in France to overturn it. But it was a bit of a shock to see them not playing at their best and we saw Selma Basha after who said, I didn't recognize my team really. So it'd be very interesting to see how they react in a week time. They're still favorites to go through. Yeah, I think so. They should. But but Wolfsburg defended really well still. Huge win for Barcelona in the Clasico against Real Madrid as they win six to away, Gab. Yeah. The Barcelona might as well be playing a different sport from, from Real Madrid.

48:03There were five one up at one point. I think the only things that kept Real Madrid in the game is Linda Caicedo. Yeah. And again, if you're not a fan of women's football, just, just watch the highlights. In fact, if you go on Barcelona's, you don't have to watch a super long, for some reason there's like super long 10 minute highlights of this on youtube just there's the highlight on barcelona's uh official youtube channel of this game um i just watch what linda caissero does uh the first goal is it's a counter attack where she just jukes her way around like three or four defenders it's all the time in the world the second one is a finish that she just hits the ball so viciously from the edge of the box into the corner um i i don't know you're gonna tell me she's not the best player in the world right because there's others she's not far

48:52Julien Laurens:she's but she's got to be up there right yeah yeah she's been for a while though but yeah yeah when she's in that kind of form and it's a shame that obviously collectively this team is not as strong as a team like barcelona with a lot of youngsters by the way who look very very promising already wild stuff at old trafford jewels manchester united twice come from behind but momoko tanikawa's leg strike means bayern take a 3-2 lead back to munich yeah it was a bit of a story really of uh the japanese players because each team had won uh tanikawa started on the bench for bayern because japan played in the asian cup women's asian cup and won it final on sunday in Sydney.

49:32Julien Laurens:And I mean, they probably should not even have played this game because there was not enough time to come back from Sydney and then play on Wednesday. But they did. One started, the other one came off the bench, came off the bench, Tanikawa to score the winner. I still don't think there's much into it for this game. And I think if you're United, you can go to Munich next week and be quite confident that you can overturn that and win. It won't be easy, but I think it's quite even between the two teams anyway. FIFA are expected to make it mandatory for women's teams to have at least one woman in the coaching staff of all their competitions like the World Cup, for example, or the club World Cup gap.

50:12Julien Laurens:Is this a good idea? So I was surprised to learn that a majority of these teams are still coached by men, which is which is fine. Get the best coach available. But I also think you have to generate you have to generate opportunities. Now, with coaching staffs it's a little bit funny because i think we've all been around people there's generally two types of coaches there's coaches like ang postacoglu who for example his staff changes all the time right yeah um there's coaches certainly a club level where one of the assistants is kind of put there by the club not to spy on him but to have continuity and whatever and there are other coaches like pochettino who are name checking again who always has the same people with him and they're total loyalists yeah um obviously a coach has to have the right to put whoever he wants on the staff but i also think this is a slightly different situation because opportunities for women's coaches especially the ones who weren't great players are actually severely limited um i i don't i you would know you know the world better than i do but is there a high-end women's coach who is a woman who was not an international player or a high-end player no it's yeah it's quite rare um so how do we do this how do we how do we generate these opportunities if you put if you have an assistant to the assistant who's in the staff who's around these players who can learn from you i think that's a positive thing and and that's how this should be looked at it's not about like quotas or or whatever especially with national teams where you know you generally have pretty big staffs yeah um so i think this is a positive thing Jules we had mayoral elections in Paris last weekend I want to ask you who you voted for because you're probably not eligible to vote when you're Paris born and bred do you get to keep that forever?

52:00No unfortunately no but it looks like the outcome of the election will impact the sale of the Parc de France

52:07Julien Laurens:yeah I think so it could do certainly the new mayor of Paris who's Labour Gregoire who was the first assistant to Hidalgo the former mayor who didn't want to sell the Parc de France to PSG has a very different stance on it he'd be very happy to sell them the Paris de France or another option would be a very long lease really so they could do their kind of refurbishment of the whole area and build hotels and shops and stuff like that like they want to do and for the club it's it brings back the kind of dilemma that they had before ideally they would love to stay in Paris, obviously, and stay at the Paris de France.

52:49Julien Laurens:You could extend it to probably 60 ,000 seats and then do those hotels and the kind of commercial side of it still on that kind of land and in that area. But the new stadium, although it would be outside of Paris, so they have two cities, Massey or Poissy, for the people who know the geography of the of the the area then you could go to up to 80 000 seats for example you could do something even bigger in terms of more hotels more shops more everything you probably hotels wouldn't be in the 16th they're only small they'd be someplace that people don't really want to go that's very true as well that's part of the the debate that they're having and the dilemma but those new brand new stadiums probably be better for concerts for example or if the nfl comes to Paris.

53:33Julien Laurens:But isn't there another 80 ,000 seat stadium in Paris which also hosts that? Very true but this one would be obviously more modern. So there's all of that to take in consideration. The fans as we all know would like to stay there anyway. I would like the team to stay there obviously too. And maybe this new election might change that and they might actually stay. Okay so I haven't read the original reporting in France but I found this fascinating. I'm going to ask you this. It seems like they're super far away in price because I mean, to the point that it seems stupid that Paris Saint-Germain supposedly offering 40 million plus the promise of investing and the other side asking for a billion.

54:16That cannot be right.

54:18Julien Laurens:No, that was before. That was before this new election. That was a long time ago. That's really hard to bring this to you. I think the stadium, the valuation of the stadium is around 300 million right now with the Paris des Princes. obviously if you buy it at 300 million you can maybe get it to 250 then the even the cost of extending it and doing everything will still be cheaper than building a brand new stadium that will cost you 1.2 billion probably something like that or at least 1 billion very very minimum minimum uh in one of the two places massy or poissy that i've mentioned before i don't know Which one is best, really?

54:56Julien Laurens:I mean, the sad thing is, the flip side is, if you're a developer and you're going to build luxury flats there, it's probably going to be worth two to three billion. Simply because it's such a... It's a great location and it's a big footprint. The rugby club, who owns the rugby stadium? Do they own the rugby stadium across the street? The city, yeah. So that can't move. So the hotel would be on the other side. But who owns the club? Who owns the rugby club? That's a private owner. So why doesn't Nassar just buy the rugby club and build a gigantic 80 ,000 stadium there and then they can both use it?

55:35That would never happen.

55:36Julien Laurens:The Times report that the Women's Super League, the WSL in England, will become the first league in the world to use a special smart ball from next season. Gab, what superpowers will it have? It will collect data which will be made available to players and coaches and analytics nerds. It also somehow help officials with VAR. I'm not 100%. I mean, yeah, I can understand the concept that there's sensors inside the ball. It's interesting with this proof of concept because this must have been tested out at lower levels. Look, even if it doesn't work, so what? It's still just a ball. But I think they need to roll this out pretty quickly because you're going to want players to have the opportunity to train with it and work with it, you know, well before the season starts.

56:25Yeah. My boy, Matias Almeida, was fired by Sevilla on Monday after defeat to Valencia. Luis Garcia Plaza comes in jewels. He's sort of like Spain's Igor Tudor.

56:36Julien Laurens:Yeah, a bit like that. That's true. We feel a bit for Almeida, who we really like, who I thought could do well in a difficult context, really, because as you know, Sevilla is going to be all per-shap really. But they lost a club that's even more dysfunctional than they are in Valencia. That's very true. And they're three points above the relegation zone. They will play Oviedo, who are the worst team in the league and will go back down too. But this is the thing. Oviedo have been playing much better recently. And I think this is why they did it because if we screw up the Oviedo game, then the game's going fast and furious.

57:14Julien Laurens:Because there have been some good performances to be fair. I think what cost him most than anything else is that seven game ban that he got for his unacceptable attitude towards the referee. And really, he should have known better to start with. And that really, I think, caused problems to this team and to where they are in the table right now. So, let's see. Good luck to Luis Garcia, Placer, for sure. The Killers, the music band, will headline the UFA Champions League final kickoff show. Gab, is it a good idea, a good choice? between this and and and last year was it limp biscuit last year yeah they seem to be catering primarily to sort of 40 and 50 year olds um but i guess those are the corporates who go and buy the tickets right yeah so uh yeah and that's what i think compared to limp biscuit certainly the killers like it seems to me that you know gen z kind of likes the killers in a retro way like so yeah vintage you know slightly dorky but you know pretty harmless band the music's okay i'm i'm all right with it i'm okay with it that's good visitors from five countries uh who have qualified for the world cup including algeria cape verde ivory coast senegal and tunisia will have to post a fifteen thousand dollar bond to obtain a visa to enter the united states um right now um it's not clear if this will apply i mean technically actually right now it does apply not just the fans but players and coaches too i'm assuming johnny can speak to his friend surely this can't be true gab this cannot be true man you can't nobody from those countries would want to come and support their national teams and the players enjoy the world cup enjoy the us canada and mexico none well i would not think many of people from those countries could pay $15 ,000 as a bond.

59:04Julien Laurens:Well, they get it back afterwards. You have to provide it in the first place, too. It's not just... Mortgage your house. I feel bad. This is what I hate about this World Cup already. I won't lie. We're going. We're excited. It'd be great for ESPN. We'll have a great coverage of it. But I hate things like that already. What I hate about this is that it's completely unnecessary. I understand the country having its rules, and obviously they fear that somebody will come and buy a ticket to the world cup and use it to illegally enter and stay in the u.s and whatever and that's a big issue i understand that countries have a right to regulate their borders however fifa need to do a better job here fifa need to say not just go to not just johnny going and prevailing on trump johnny can say like hey look we have four billion in reserves this fifteen thousand dollars is a bond it's a guarantee we will guarantee at least the players and coaches right now, and maybe the fans who asked us as well.

1:00:00We will put up the$15 ,000 for them. We will get it back after the World Cup. And that's it. And we're not going to go and create more embarrassment for FIFA, more negativity around this World Cup. Right?

1:00:12Julien Laurens:Players and coaches cannot pay to get a visa to the US like that. They'll get the money back after the World Cup. That's embarrassing from the US if that's the truth. Absolutely embarrassing. And it's not just Manchester United keeping Jim Ratcliffe busy, Gab. He's fallen out with his old friend, Ben Ensley, or Sir Ben Ensley, actually, two sirs, of an American skip boat. Yeah, okay. This is funny. This makes together like a duo where I actually like and respect Jim Ratcliffe far more than the other one. So I'm rooting for you, Jim. So I find this story so bizarre. Why is he even a quick hit? It's about sailing.

1:00:49It's about Jim Ratcliffe and the nonsense he has to deal with. okay so basically ike as you know as you can imagine i'm not into yachts and sailing just not my bag i like to see but um so he got together with this guy ainsley who i think they decided to spend 180 million pounds to go and build a boat um to enter the america's cup which by the way i don't think they won but hey whatever um and this was with team inios which is reckless business so then then ratcliffe says okay times are tough i just spend money on united give more money to glazers i'm going to step back and we're no longer going to to sponsor this boat and then ainsley says okay fine um i'm keeping the boat i like this notion of ainsley just sailing the boat out away from ratcliffe so now there's um there's threats of of legal action and whatever ainsley saying that no you guys you pay you invested in my racing team which is called athena or something stupid like that um and the boat belongs to the team i i just underscored 180 million pounds it's more than 200 million dollars this boat is supposedly worth i say supposedly because it's a racing yacht you can't do anything other you can't do anything with it other than enter it's on like a comfortable yacht that you want to hang you know hang out in like or sell to larry ellison or whatever right it's just such nonsense and this is the problem with too many people too many egos getting involved in sports jules this brings us to an end yeah but don't worry we're gonna be back on monday talking about some um world cup playoffs yes hopefully i will good news i will be relaxed until then love the game love your neighbor love yourself

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