Emma Hayes

I just saw a recent quote where you –

I'm paraphrasing, but you're really thinking two years out now and how you plan over the next whatever year and a half or so.

So what's your mindset going into this camp?

What are you looking for?

With the reminder that you don't have any European players and the Gotham players, I believe, are in Spain preparing for the Champions Cup.

So what's your mindset now as you go into this camp?

Wow.

Well, she's going to be forever linked now, most likely, just like our pal David Beckham was with what we call the Beckham rule, which was the designated player rule in Major League Soccer.

And now she'll be linked with this new high-impact player rule in NWSL.

Just curious, one, your thoughts on it.

And then two, are you also involved in that conversation discussion?

Because, I mean, you're more agnostic.

You take the players wherever they're playing.

But I can tell you do care about the league here and you want it to continue to grow because you know the importance for women's soccer.

One of the components of the rule, which was really interesting, is it's tied to how many minutes a player plays with the national team.

And so it, I'm just thinking this through in your mind, this puts you, I mean, you're going to play who you're going to play based on what you think is best for the team and the player and their future.

But there is an element of this that in theory could complicate the way you look at these things, right?

Because in some ways that is impacting.

their ability to earn money, whether they're playing more or less minutes.

Am I overthinking that or is that?