Welcome to the Fantasy Throw Down Podcast, bringing you the latest updates from the world of sports,

gambling and pop culture, because you can't have a show without hot takes or a Tiger King meme these days.

Know what I'm saying?

Now with over 200 episodes and ready to get after it again, here's your host,

Dwayne calendar.

All right folks, welcome to the show.

Got a lot to talk about and not a whole lot of time to get through everything but

we're gonna make a make our good way through it all because we have the

Premier League coming back in a couple of hours to be honest,

recording this in the morning, but we have the season kickoff soon in the Premier League with Arsenal facing off against

newly promoted Brettford but plenty going on in the Premier League with drama, obviously, and changes, which is always happening, but the world of soccer got set ablaze not too long ago with the shocking

departure of Leonel messy from Barcelona and I kind of have to talk about this one because this is an all-timer

What are we doing? What are we doing? moment. Get this just let wrap this around your head

Barcelona the highest revenue grossing team in the world

more than the Yankees. They clear more bank than even the Yankees.

Barcelona as a club clears well over a billion dollars a year in revenue.

Billion. They print money.

Somehow, Barcelona is so far in the hole in debt that Lalega could not actually allow

them to sign most of their players including messy who had already agreed to take a

70% pay cut due to the pandemic and lost revenue for the year because all soccer clubs have been taken a beating

with the lack of revenue generated by fans. We all knew this but Barcelona had so badly mismanaged their finances that literally this is

impossible to do. This bill a brook even bill

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