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: We prepare you for the most exciting night the Champions League has ever seen, as 18 games kick off at the same time, including Manchester City’s crunch match with Brugge; Myles Lewis-Skelly’s red card has been overturned; Manchester United's plan to build a 100,000-seat stadium receive a major green light; Manchester United close in on signing Lecce defender Patrick Dorgu; the race for Evan Ferguson’s signature hots up; and we tell you about the USWNT stars moving to Europe.

Football don't sleep, and neither do we.

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

Host: Sammy James

Producer: George Cooper

Assistant producer: Elizabeth Barnard

Researcher: Jack Collins

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