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00:00All games played in the U.S. and Canada,
00:03but starting the post-season,
00:06the playoffs are gonna be played on Wednesdays
00:08to try to kind of mimic this Champions League calendar
00:12where teams are playing their domestic leagues
00:14on the weekend and their international games
00:17on the midweek.
00:18What I'd like to share is that for this year,
00:21we are not going to stop the domestic leagues for a month
00:25to play this kind of makeshift tournament.
00:28I think that was a disservice to the local leagues.
00:31People lost momentum.
00:33The players lost, you know, also momentum
00:35because the travel was brutal.
00:37I think these are positive changes.
00:39This might be what this marriage
00:43between MLS and Liga MX is that it's providing a lot
00:46because as we've been reporting,
00:48so many players have been going from MLS to Liga MX.
00:54We were talking off-camera, Chiba,
00:57how much Liga MX is farming out players from MLS,
01:04allowing the MLS teams to go buy on the cheap,
01:07develop players, and then they go
01:09because they have more budget.
01:10What do you think is the future
01:12for this development path for players from Europe
01:15that come to MLS, play in Liga MX?
01:18I think it's great.
01:19Look, man, everybody wins, right?
01:21MLS, for example, Mateusz Bogus that went to Cruz Azul,
01:25LAFC got him for $1 million.
01:27They sold him for 8.5.
01:28I think that's the number.
01:31LAFC's happy, Cruz Azul is happy.
01:33Liga MX teams are doing that
01:35because there's a lot of players from MLS
01:37now going to Liga MX, which is crazy.
01:40But at the same time, it's understandable
01:42because like you and I were talking off-camera,
01:44there's, sometimes Liga MX is gonna spend
01:48five, six, $7 million on a player from South America
01:52that they don't even know he's gonna be any good.
01:56Now what they're doing,
01:57they're scouting the players from the MLS.
01:58They're down to pay the money that they're asking for,
02:00but they're taking some amazing players.
02:02And there's a rumor for one more player
02:04to leave the champion and go to play for Tigres.
02:07Oh, yes.
02:08The rumor that now with Gniak
02:13getting this season-ending injury,
02:15now they're going after Djobelik,
02:18our good friend Nick C, countryman,
02:22the Serbian, critical for Galaxy on the championship,
02:26now might be a player from Tigres
02:29joining a handful of top players from MLS
02:34migrating for the big box.
02:36And Chiba, thank you so much.
02:38We're gonna go with Nick on the next segment,
02:40but thank you for being here with us.
02:42Are you excited about Latin Nation Football Club or what?
02:45Man, I'm so excited.
02:46I wanna be wearing a jersey
02:47from Latin Nation Football Club.
02:49And I'm also excited about MLS when we're almost there.
02:52A lot of football coming our way,
02:54and I'm so excited to be here,
02:55part of Latin Nation Football Club, baby.