Esther González

And, and I think it sort of...

That made me think of the whole Ester Gonzalez thing-

Yeah

... of like if you're going over to play for these people who have such level of money, but maybe part of the reason that they do that is that you take away pictures of your wife and kids on Instagram or something.

We had a little panic after things got tight, and Rose Lavelle made her triumphant return to play, and we'll talk about the game.

But since there's really not much Gotham news going on, I guess, you know, I figure we focus on some former Gotham players, such as Esther Gonzalez, who made her debut for Alcacia.

And let's dive deep into this one since we don't have news.

Let me see.

We haven't talked about Jaelen Howell a lot.

Uh, Sam Kerr stepping in when Esther Gonzalez was expected to be there to some degree, right?

Mm-hmm.

An, an, an abrupt exit.

It's not a WSL one.

It's Esther Gonzalez, who you'll remember from the Spanish national team.

She's a World Cup winner.

She's left Gotham.

It's like, oh, look how, you know, actually we're really modern, despite all of the abhorrent goings on there.

So it's absolutely part of the sports washing thing.

But it also raises a question, which I've seen a great article in The Guardian about, of... why why did Esther Gonzalez a queer but away from that just on the field highly successful having won the championship with Gotham having won the World Cup why is she going to Saudi obviously the obvious thing is money but what's what what is how bad is it the money that she's getting in the nwsl that that's a feasible thing to do to go to a country where it is illegal to be who you are

well that's the i mean i've got a lot of feelings on this yeah quite imagine first of all maisie i know like next to nothing about the saudi league yeah like about i know a bit more about the men's yeah which is a surprise which is sort of almost nothing as well But what do we know about the women's, like, is it well attended? Are they behind it?

But what I do know is that the numbers from that night look nothing like the numbers from Saturday.

Now, who to watch out for? Esther Gonzalez has left Gotham, so she's not even on the team anymore.

She was their joint top scorer with six, 22% of everything that they have scored all season, and she's not even walking back out to that door again.

Rose Lavelle, U.S. Women's National Team member, time of this recording is currently in the concussion protocol after a head injury against angel city she missed their last match so right now they might be without rose lavelle another us women's national team member that they have on that team emily sonnet is out for the season another thing to note is that they are being run by an acting head coach all that to say They are still unbeaten in the last 10 games.