Will Messi leave Barcelona? Champions League semi-final previews, Mewis and Lavelle to Man City
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
First up, we talk Messi's rumored Barcelona exit. Where did this story start? Where might he go? Is he actually going to leave? And what do we think Leo Messi really wants?
Then we preview the Champions League semifinals. Here are your timestamps:
29:05 — RB Leipzig vs PSG
Will Tyler Adams start? How long can Kylian Mbappe go? And what has Nagelsmann got planned for PSG?
53:40 — Lyon vs Bayern Munich
Will Bayern push high or will they fear Lyon's counter? Is there space for Bayern to exploit? Is there raum for Mueller to deut? Are Cornet and Caqueret the real deal?
1:08:45 — Sam Mewis and Rose Lavelle are joining Man City in the FAWSL. We get into the details of the deals and what is means for the NWSL
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:23.6 | My name is Daryl Grove, and I'm joined by a man who doesn't want to leave the Total Soccer show. |
| 0:28.4 | Not now. Not in 2021. |
| 0:30.5 | His name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello, but we never know what the future holds, Daryl. |
| 0:35.4 | That's the way to keep it open and end open and ambiguous, so I get a new contract. |
| 0:38.6 | How dare you? |
| 0:39.4 | I hope the football ramble people aren't listening. |
| 0:42.5 | I have an American accent. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm not sure that would fly. |
| 0:46.0 | Maybe you'd be filling a quota. |
| 0:47.9 | You never know. |
| 0:50.7 | On today's show. |
| 0:52.2 | Now you're doing the rumor mongering for me, and I appreciate it. |
| 0:55.5 | So obviously we started with rumors because there have been all those Leo Messi rumors. |
| 1:01.7 | We're going to get into that. |
| 1:03.4 | We tracked the rumor to its source as best we could. |
| 1:06.9 | Some not quite journalistic, but pretty intrepid work from the two of us, I think. |
| 1:11.2 | We're also going to preview the Champions League semifinals with the things we're looking out for. |
| 1:16.4 | Things to look out for in the Champions League semifinals. |
| 1:18.3 | That's Leipzig versus PSG for Tuesday and Leon versus Bayern Munich for Wednesday. |
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