Oct 3, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 13 segments
Fútbol is Life! Nat, Matt, and Ethan are back to discuss Gyasi Zardes, Man City, Federico Higuain firing, Marc Dos Santos firing, and everything that happened in the last 3 weeks. Fútbol is Life!…
Nat MaymudesHost
Ethan CooneyHost
Matt PowellHost
Sports are like the one growing sector of the entertainment industry and private equity is investing and oil money is investing and sovereign funds are investing.

So like all these that are now involved in sports that aren't in it for the love of the game or because they appreciate the sports team that they're buying are here to break the rules and win games and capitalize.

And this is a consequence of the new type of money that's in sports, and I hope that the Premier League brings down the hammer.

I think players are entitled to get paid, and I think players are then... know like they are going to win games and they're going to play as hard as they can and and coaches are going to coach as well as they can and their goal is to win and i don't fault players or coaches for that i fought the decision makers and the rule breakers and the evidence against the rule break like they just did this over email like if you're going to do fraud or like or like cheat like do it over phone calls it's actually very easy don't don't send emails like we need to make this by the way even i think your sporting director is like involved and like yes there are emails from him that's like hey we need to make this look like this and it's like okay

yes not i don't think not the sporting director i think it's uh the the chief financial officer which is maybe worse yeah that's right uh yeah and i think it's andrew widows widowson Wittowson.

Sports are like the one growing sector of the entertainment industry and private equity is investing and oil money is investing and sovereign funds are investing.

So like all these that are now involved in sports that aren't in it for the love of the game or because they appreciate the sports team that they're buying are here to break the rules and win games and capitalize.

And this is a consequence of the new type of money that's in sports, and I hope that the Premier League brings down the hammer.

I think players are entitled to get paid, and I think players are then... know like they are going to win games and they're going to play as hard as they can and and coaches are going to coach as well as they can and their goal is to win and i don't fault players or coaches for that i fought the decision makers and the rule breakers and the evidence against the rule break like they just did this over email like if you're going to do fraud or like or like cheat like do it over phone calls it's actually very easy don't don't send emails like we need to make this by the way even i think your sporting director is like involved and like yes there are emails from him that's like hey we need to make this look like this and it's like okay

yes not i don't think not the sporting director i think it's uh the the chief financial officer which is maybe worse yeah that's right uh yeah and i think it's andrew widows widowson Wittowson.
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