you see a willingness to just sort of bet on themselves. I mean we say this all the time, you know, like bet on women's sports, bet on the end of USL.

That's exactly what this is. And to become an American League abolishing entry drafts is just that.

It's visionary, it's forward thinking, I'm a big big fan.

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub I am your

host Claire Watkins we're doing things a little bit differently this week I am

from the past I am recording this on Wednesday, August 21st. We're banking this one for this

week so I'm gonna take just a little bit of time off but we've got a really

really great piece of news to discuss up top a huge groundbreaking piece of news for the end of us.

Couldn't go without discussing that and then we also have a reader and listener mailbag.

We're going to be answering some of your burning questions about NWSL, USM is national team, global football, a lot of really

interesting stuff in there, so let's go ahead and dig in.

All right, so timing works out.

We actually have one piece of major news to discuss this week. We are

recording this I think before the announcement but it will be out on

Thursday of what will be last week. Time, interesting interesting I want to talk about the new

NWSL CBA that was announced last Thursday I have been given the highlights

here I want to talk about them because there are some pretty radical things in here.

The CBA truly reshapes the construct of what it means to be an NWSL player owner fan coach.

Really, really cool in my opinion. We'll talk about some of the highlights here and then we'll get into some analysis.

So the big big stuff, right? They are abolishing the draft, the college draft, expansion draft,

anything aligning to discovery rights, huge move for player choice, letting them

align closer with what we see in the global game in Europe and beyond.

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