This is Early Kick Off from the Men in Blazers media network and presented by our great friends of the pod STōK Cold Brew Coffee, all your global football stories straight from the back pages of Europe's newspapers in around 10 minutes.

On today’s episode: David Coote apologizes for the actions which led to him being sacked, comes out as gay, and says he wishes he’d reached out to loved ones; Coote continues to deny allegations that he had made an agreement with a friend to award a yellow card; Spurs have been monitoring Tyler Dibling at Southampton and Nico Williams at Athletic Club; Bayer Leverkusen have interest in Aston Villa’s Emi Buendia; New York City FC defender Christian McFarlane has joined Manchester City; it looks like there is no way back for Marcus Rashford at Manchester United; Manchester United and Chelsea are considering a sensational swap deal for Alejandro Garnacho and Christopher Nkunku; and we preview a brand new episode of Running the Game with Bill Foley.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

This episode was made in the UK for Men In Blazers by…

Host/producer: George Cooper

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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