Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who always shows up for preseason training.

His name is Taylor Rockwell.

Hello.

Hello.

I appreciate that introduction as opposed to like a man who tried to sit out the next year of the total soccer show.

That would be slightly more awkward.

So thanks for that, buddy.

So the news is Leo Messi has not shown up for Barcelona preseason training.

And I think coronavirus testing was also part of it.

He's really all in on this I'm leaving Barcelona deal.

Which I still sort of cannot believe.

And at this like maybe it will reach the point where he will sign with another team, like be playing for them. And I will still think it's a move to try to get Barcelona to sort of do what he wants. That probably explains my mindset a little bit. But it still feels very surreal that we're contemplating a world in which Lino Messy is not playing for Barcelona. So I guess if you want loads of detail on what's going on at Barcelona, go back to last week's show. I interviewed Graham Ruthven. He really did have all the knowledge. I didn't prep him all that much on what I was going to ask him, and anything I threw at him, he had an answer, which I really, really appreciated. He's very good, right? So if you want to hear all about Leo Messi leaving Barcelona, that's the show to listen to.

I guess Taylor and I will just...

We'll keep... really, really appreciated. He's very good, right? So if you want to hear all about Leo Messi leaving

Barcelona, that's the show to listen to. I guess Taylor and I will just, we'll keep you updated

with what happens going forward. We will indeed. I cannot picture him going the art of

Tehran route of just not playing soccer for a year. I don't know what's going to happen,

Darrell, but I think, yeah, we'll definitely be updating. It's definitely going to be strange. Today's show, Taylor, we are going to talk about transfers that have already happened that we find really interesting. Because the transfer window has been open a little while now. It's going to be open until October 5th. There's going to be more transfers. But there's loads of moves have already taken place, mostly with the Premier League. I really did look outside the Premier League to see

who else was spending money. Yes. As spending money, as is tradition. So I think honestly,

all of mine are at least Premier League related, with the exception of one young American on his way to Italy, which I'm sure we'll

get to. But yeah, this is our transfer roundup of the most interesting transfers so far.

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