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: Arsenal advance to the Carabao Cup semi-finals with a Gabriel Jesus hat-trick against Crystal Palace; Newcastle and Liverpool also progress; A22 Sports Management, who initially proposed the European Super League in 2021, have brought forward new plans for the ‘Unify League’; Amorim has made his stance clear on Marcus Rashford; Manchester United are trying to tie Amad Diallo down to a new contract; we preview the Carabao Cup fixture on Thursday, Tottenham v Manchester United; and Wayne Rooney avoids a club event for the Christmas markets.

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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