Speaker 1: We are kicking it back live in studio here in
Speaker 1: downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, after our quick foray to
Speaker 1: Las Vegas for the show yesterday for the Utah Men's
Speaker 1: Basketball Experience and the College Basketball Crown which only lasted
Speaker 1: one game.
Speaker 2: We'll switch gears now.
Speaker 1: We'll do a little soccer on a Tuesday afternoon with
Speaker 1: RSL taking on the Galaxy coming up on Saturday, two
Speaker 1: thirty pm Mountain Kick. That's a nice little afternoon start time.
Speaker 1: And the head coach of RSL, what's going on, dude?
Speaker 1: Are you drawing the short this short straw every week?
Speaker 1: Are they making you come on and talk to me?
Speaker 1: Because nobody else wants to discuss this stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Spence, But now that you say that, no,
Speaker 3: it's a part of the gig, man, it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll talk and have some good discourse over some of
Speaker 3: the things that's going on. And I got some I
Speaker 3: got some good background to all the things that I'm sure.
Speaker 1: You want not all right, Well, that's good stuff because
Speaker 1: you know the background that RSL fans are wondering about.
Speaker 1: Are these players that apparently are on the way to
Speaker 1: help you out? And you know every time I have
Speaker 1: these conversations, it's different. I approach you differently if I'm
Speaker 1: talking to Kurt or Jason or Tony or you, because
Speaker 1: you're the coach and it's technically not your job, but
Speaker 1: you're the one that it feels to me is behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball because of the lack of talent in
Speaker 1: the attack. That's just my opinion. Where are we at, Pablo?
Speaker 1: What are these players going to be on the ground?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so again, Spence, I wish I had some better
Speaker 3: news for you as far as definitive answers. Uh, but
Speaker 3: but I don't. You know, we looked at another another
Speaker 3: player yesterday, and again these things. The crazy thing is,
Speaker 3: there's so many things that I've said this before that
Speaker 3: that have to align. And and so even when if
Speaker 3: we close a deal, it's still going to be another
Speaker 3: month away. And so like to your point about you
Speaker 3: know that that's not my remit. I got to constantly
Speaker 3: figure out different ways to do that, you know. And
Speaker 3: and so you know, so if you're if your sphere
Speaker 3: isn't isn't the sharpest right, and you're not able to
Speaker 3: score the goals that you need to win games, and
Speaker 3: then what I'm saying is we just got to get
Speaker 3: better on the defensive end. But it's a it's a
Speaker 3: catch twenty two, right, because if you do concede first,
Speaker 3: then the hope and the confidence of the group dwindles
Speaker 3: because they know that the tip of the spear isn't
Speaker 3: isn't the sharpest, right, And so it's it's constantly and
Speaker 3: deal and just managing emotions and saying, okay, this is
Speaker 3: that we we just got to get back to compete
Speaker 3: in the right way and defending our box the right way,
Speaker 3: and hopefully, if we if we get some results with
Speaker 3: with a great mindset and defending the box, when the
Speaker 3: tip of the spear finally arrives, we're going to be flying.
Speaker 3: And so that's the way I'm processing all this because
Speaker 3: the truth is, I don't know when it's going to happen,
Speaker 3: and there's a chance if it happens, but this is
Speaker 3: a situation that we're currently in and we got to
Speaker 3: do the best we can and put our heads together
Speaker 3: to find a solution in the interim.
Speaker 1: So you just reference something that I find really interesting.
Speaker 1: And because this is a complicated thing, no part of
Speaker 1: me would want to put you in a position where
Speaker 1: you're talking poorly about your locker room and the group
Speaker 1: that you have to coach. I mean, the players that
Speaker 1: you have at your disposal are the ones you have
Speaker 1: to maximize.
Speaker 2: But you you.
Speaker 1: Reference when the group knows the tip of the spear
Speaker 1: isn't very sharp when you go down a man, or
Speaker 1: excuse me, when you go down a goal. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess a couple of games ago you go down a man,
Speaker 1: But when you go down a goal, it feels almost
Speaker 1: insurmountable because the group knows that the potency isn't there
Speaker 1: in attack. Is the confidence of the group taking a hit?
Speaker 1: Do they realize that the solutions that you have up
Speaker 1: top right now are not the right ones given the
Speaker 1: results so far?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, And again it's yes, listen, I think
Speaker 3: you know. Soccer players, you know, are some of the
Speaker 3: smartest workforces in sports, only because they're so well traveled
Speaker 3: and they they see life from a different perspective, so
Speaker 3: like everyone is real privy to it. And the other
Speaker 3: part of that is, you know, the guys that we
Speaker 3: do have up top are twenty twenty one and twenty
Speaker 3: years old, right, and so like it's not fair to
Speaker 3: those guys who would typically thrive if there was there
Speaker 3: was an experienced player that had accomplished a lot. That's
Speaker 3: when players do their best learnings right when their peers
Speaker 3: are these examples for them to follow. But putting the
Speaker 3: burden on twenty year old and a twenty one year
Speaker 3: old guys that are just cutting their teeth in the
Speaker 3: professional game isn't fair either. And that's why i'm that's
Speaker 3: why i'm you know, sit with the leadership do today
Speaker 3: and say we've just got to find solutions. Right, We've
Speaker 3: got to take the brunt of the responsibility and obviously
Speaker 3: I think I think most of that right, and we've
Speaker 3: got to, like, we've got to look at this differently.
Speaker 3: And so again, if if you're struggling in the attack,
Speaker 3: then you've got to fortify the defense. And that's got
Speaker 3: to be our mantra to get us because again, if
Speaker 3: we go into halftime at zero zero, again there's set
Speaker 3: pieces that you know, we giggle and diego are capable
Speaker 3: of scoring goals, but obviously that's not they're a strong
Speaker 3: point either. They're more goal facilitators in are goal scorers.
Speaker 3: So we've got to find a way through committee and
Speaker 3: through managing the game the right way and have a
Speaker 3: collective understanding that we've got to get to halftime zero zero.
Speaker 3: And if we're up one zero, that's that's a bonus.
Speaker 3: But we've got to get there zero zero. So now
Speaker 3: we can start to like really grind these teams down,
Speaker 3: create pressure through our possession, and find a way into
Speaker 3: the net. So that's that's the way we're talking about
Speaker 3: it internally, and you know, just meeting with the leadership group,
Speaker 3: you know, once a week and making sure that we
Speaker 3: readjust our focus on not what we don't have, but
Speaker 3: what we can be really good at in the strength
Speaker 3: of our group.
Speaker 1: All Right, one more question in this space, then we'll
Speaker 1: move on, because you know, at some point we have
Speaker 1: to talk about what we're dealing with, what's in front
Speaker 1: of us. As you know, that's all you can all
Speaker 1: you can actually deal with. But I'm gonna list it
Speaker 1: man Kurt Schmidt, Jason christ Tony Beltran, Pablo Mastuhenny an
Speaker 1: unnamed source, little birdie, cute little bird, very small bird.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you who, but it seems like everybody
Speaker 1: over there has told me over the past month like
Speaker 1: we are a few days away from getting this stuff
Speaker 1: across the line, and you know this, But for our listeners,
Speaker 1: the primary transfer window closes three weeks from Thursday, three
Speaker 1: weeks from Thursday, so like we've got to stop messing around.
Speaker 1: To your point, like you can have the idea of
Speaker 1: bringing this player into that player and then something gets
Speaker 1: in the way and it's two or three weeks later. Well, Pablo,
Speaker 1: if it's two or three weeks later, now it's not
Speaker 1: happening until the summer. So have you been given any
Speaker 1: sort of an assurance that at least, you know, within
Speaker 1: this window before April twenty third comes and goes, you
Speaker 1: will have better talent at your disposal to coach.
Speaker 3: Yes, but again until until it's the arrives Spence, you know,
Speaker 3: it's just there's just no guarantees, right, there's just no guarantees.
Speaker 3: And there's different mechanisms that that you know, we can
Speaker 3: go internally within the league and and find you know,
Speaker 3: a proven goal scorer you know, and and again, and
Speaker 3: the one thing I will promise is when this goal
Speaker 3: scorer does arrive, when this guy, it's going to take
Speaker 3: the pressure off everyone and now you can have everyone
Speaker 3: playing with a sense of freedom, and and and and
Speaker 3: and players playing authentic to where to who they are.
Speaker 3: You know, I think in this moment, you know, sometimes
Speaker 3: you know, Diego Luna is trying to do too much
Speaker 3: to make the game when if he just does his job,
Speaker 3: he's an excellent creative player. But if he struggles to
Speaker 3: find someone to link with higher up the field that
Speaker 3: can take the pressure off him, you know, it's difficult,
Speaker 3: and so you so at the moment, you're also seeing
Speaker 3: guys trying to overplay and guys trying to do too
Speaker 3: much in the absence of this of a player that's
Speaker 3: not even here. So but there has But again we're
Speaker 3: talking about it. Like I said yesterday, we identified another
Speaker 3: player that hopefully we can secure. But until that player arrives,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's tough to feel confident that that you
Speaker 3: know that it happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, So are you satisfied with you know what you
Speaker 1: outline as far as how you're trying to emphasize. Okay,
Speaker 1: if we don't have the potency in attack, let's make
Speaker 1: sure we're a tough nut to crack and what where
Speaker 1: you aut on that side of the field. As far
Speaker 1: as uh defending as a team, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: brawl has been a bright spot I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he's been a good addition.
Speaker 2: So where are you at over there?
Speaker 3: Bob's yeah, no, I think again, it's just just hitting
Speaker 3: on it today again in the recap and saying, like
Speaker 3: these moments where we're in complete control of the game
Speaker 3: from an offensive perspective. Right. So I look at the
Speaker 3: two goals we conceded in Minnesota, and they both started
Speaker 3: with us in really clear possession of the ball. We're
Speaker 3: literally three orders of the way up the field, playing
Speaker 3: in our opponent's final third, and within five passes the
Speaker 3: balls in the back of our net. So, like what
Speaker 3: we talk about defensively, it's defending in transition. So the
Speaker 3: first part of that is making sure that you're defensively
Speaker 3: prepared for any any turnover, right, So that is more
Speaker 3: communication from the guys in the back, it's better positioning
Speaker 3: from our from our midfielders, and then it's putting out fires,
Speaker 3: you know. And and I think the majority of the
Speaker 3: goals that we can see this year have been through
Speaker 3: those transition moments. It hasn't been like we've been defending
Speaker 3: in a block close to our goal, But because we're
Speaker 3: trying to be aggressive and commit numbers forward, we're susceptible
Speaker 3: in the back, and so that's the trade off, right,
Speaker 3: So because we haven't scored a lot of goals, we
Speaker 3: want to get number numbers higher up the field. But
Speaker 3: the footside of that is that you're susceptible. So it's
Speaker 3: it's it's a it's a work in progress. But I
Speaker 3: think today, especially talking to the leadership group in Rock
Speaker 3: with cabral Is one of those players. That's what we're
Speaker 3: being very deliberate gone because we are getting up the field,
Speaker 3: we are creating chances, but we're just not putting the
Speaker 3: biscuit in the basket. And so if we can nullify
Speaker 3: some of those opportunities and handle those moments in real
Speaker 3: professional ways, I find that we'll put ourselves in position
Speaker 3: to win more games.
Speaker 2: So let's let's look at the Minnesota game.
Speaker 1: Actually, before we look at you know how you decided
Speaker 1: to go about it, because we did catch up with
Speaker 1: you last week and I was unfortunately playing weather man
Speaker 1: during our interview and I reference what the conditions were
Speaker 1: going to be like, So it looked rough man on television.
Speaker 1: What sort of challenges did the weather provide up in Minnesota?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's again, I think the coldest games I've ever
Speaker 3: played were in those type of conditions where it's not
Speaker 3: cold enough for snow, but it's wind blowing at like
Speaker 3: whatever it was forty degrees and the wind blowing the
Speaker 3: rain sideways, and the one thing is you just don't
Speaker 3: have an opportunity to ever like feel comfortable, right, And
Speaker 3: so that that's what the game kind of looked like.
Speaker 3: And it was rough game, given that those guys were
Speaker 3: just putting balls into the box and really being directing.
Speaker 3: We try to play a little bit, and so that
Speaker 3: style of going up against that Doyle play on that
Speaker 3: type of surface was very difficult. And you know, at
Speaker 3: halftime I had we were going to make two tactical changes,
Speaker 3: and it ended up being four because two of the
Speaker 3: players were experiencing hypothermic symptoms, right, so you know Yogo
Speaker 3: and Dominic Marsouk, they just couldn't feel their bodies anymore
Speaker 3: and their lifts were blue in the whole nine yards.
Speaker 3: So like that definitely threw things for a spin. So
Speaker 3: I feel like going from the Dallas game where we
Speaker 3: were down a man, going into Minnesota with those type
Speaker 3: of conditions, we've experienced a lot of hardship early on
Speaker 3: and now it's really leaning on those moments to really
Speaker 3: dig deep and become a better team on a Saturday
Speaker 3: where it's hopefully sunny two thirty in the afternoon against
Speaker 3: the great team like La.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it will be Sonny. I think that'll help.
Speaker 1: We'll get there in a moment. I wonder, because you
Speaker 1: reference and smart Zuke and Diego, do international players have
Speaker 1: a tough time acclimating to some of the challenging conditions
Speaker 1: MLS puts you guys in when it comes to playing
Speaker 1: and some of these hold weather scenarios. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just asking because those two guys obviously are are transplants
Speaker 1: here playing for MLS from different countries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and ironically both of those players have
Speaker 3: played in snow before, right. Diego came from Denmark team
Speaker 3: in Denmark and Dominic came from a team in Poland.
Speaker 3: But but I think again, like the way the amount
Speaker 3: of rain that was falling and the wind blowing was
Speaker 3: was I think very unique. And you know, I come
Speaker 3: to find out that Minnesota have these these warm blankets
Speaker 3: that they had on their players on the bench and
Speaker 3: in the locker rooms at halftime, and we didn't have that.
Speaker 3: We didn't have that right. And I just think that
Speaker 3: that little difference of like being able to like warm
Speaker 3: yourself at halftime could have made the difference between the players,
Speaker 3: you know, getting through the second half and maybe not.
Speaker 3: But you know, I think it wasn't just those two guys.
Speaker 3: Everyone was you know, I mean, everyone's eyes were just
Speaker 3: like they were all everyone was shivering at halftime. It
Speaker 3: was incredible. So the fact that the guys actually finished
Speaker 3: the game was a feat unto itself. And and and
Speaker 3: again that's I think something that we need to lean
Speaker 3: on as a group because we've gone through a lot
Speaker 3: in the last two weeks and we've got to use
Speaker 3: that as a motivational force to move forward.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to the way you elected to
Speaker 1: attack this peole was out because of the red card.
Speaker 1: So Forrester gets the startup top. I just had the
Speaker 1: lineup slide. So I know this isn't exactly how it
Speaker 1: goes because guys move around, but diego central centrally located
Speaker 1: where the ten would be, diego out left.
Speaker 2: Out, out wide right, and then uh macha and o'heta.
Speaker 1: Of course, as you're you're you're central, what's the what
Speaker 1: is there something going on with Katranis or are you
Speaker 1: just choosing to kind of cycle through that left back
Speaker 1: spot that I just thought was his.
Speaker 2: I thought he had solidified that.
Speaker 3: No, you know again, I think there's uh, you know,
Speaker 3: Sam Junko had a really really good preseason. His his
Speaker 3: physical output is the top on the team, so in
Speaker 3: that position, you know, we asked him to play wing
Speaker 3: winger when we have the ball, and we ask him
Speaker 3: to play left back when we don't. And Sam had
Speaker 3: just had a really good preseason, great start to the season,
Speaker 3: had a really good performance in Houston. So we've been
Speaker 3: running it. But but again, I think obviously when you're
Speaker 3: not getting the results, you're you're looking at every nook
Speaker 3: and cranny to try to find percentages to the good.
Speaker 3: And that's definitely one position that we're looking at and
Speaker 3: and and a big part of that is the way
Speaker 3: Alex has been training. Alex has been great, his attitude
Speaker 3: has been great. So you know, looking towards this next game,
Speaker 3: there will probably be two to three different changes to
Speaker 3: the group that you're that you've just mentioned again to
Speaker 3: continue to instill a competitive environment, but to also find
Speaker 3: different mechanisms to spark you know, the results.
Speaker 1: Is there another option besides forrest during pol up top.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking because I'm knocking on those two. I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering what sort of depth you have up there?
Speaker 1: Is there anything maybe we just haven't seen that you
Speaker 1: feel like you might be able to try to kind
Speaker 1: of crack this thing open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's a bit unconventional. But his who's Borea,
Speaker 3: who came into the game in the second half about it,
Speaker 3: did extremely well. He played as kind of a false
Speaker 3: nine in uh in college, and so you know, this
Speaker 3: is this is making an adjustment to our game model
Speaker 3: where we actually want our nine to be on the
Speaker 3: highest line, to always push the defensive line back to
Speaker 3: create space underneath for Diego and Diego. But we're looking
Speaker 3: at you know, maybe his Seu's in that position to
Speaker 3: occupy center backs because the three of them really understand movements,
Speaker 3: the ball possession, and they're really really crafty. So we'll
Speaker 3: look at that tomorrow and see if that that that,
Speaker 3: you know, brings up anything a little bit different. But
Speaker 3: his Seuss has a great eye for goal, scored quite
Speaker 3: a few goals in his last college season and has
Speaker 3: been really really bright in front of goal for us.
Speaker 3: And so again, if what we're doing isn't isn't working,
Speaker 3: we're always looking for different ways to readjust our game
Speaker 3: model so that we can be more productive in the attack.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean I just continue to kind of
Speaker 1: feel bad that you're in this spot where you have
Speaker 1: to get creative, like, hey, let's play a false night
Speaker 1: Like no, let's get a nine that can actually score.
Speaker 1: You know, but that's just me. So let's move towards Saturday.
Speaker 1: But before we get there specifically, And you were good
Speaker 1: to talk about this last time you joined, and I
Speaker 1: always discussed just basically being around now the league for
Speaker 1: twenty years since we brought the club here. I've seen
Speaker 1: some of our best team start horribly. I've seen some
Speaker 1: of our worst team start incredibly. And this season is
Speaker 1: simply a marathon. But do you feel like it's getting
Speaker 1: late early? Do you catch my drift? You feel like
Speaker 1: it's getting late early? I kind of feeling a little
Speaker 1: pressure leaving points on the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's always obviously you can't you can't
Speaker 3: win the season at the start, but you can put
Speaker 3: yourself in a a in a in a tough spot,
Speaker 3: you know where I feel where I feel good about
Speaker 3: our group is that one. It's a really really honest group,
Speaker 3: right we you know, we might not have the sharpest
Speaker 3: tip of the spear, but we do have an honest group.
Speaker 3: And so when we were doing our game reviews, there's
Speaker 3: there's everyone's understanding what we're talking about, what the expectations are.
Speaker 3: And you know, in the last couple of years, we've
Speaker 3: been on runs where we've been fifteen unbeaten. Right in
Speaker 3: the last two years, I think we've had two runs
Speaker 3: where we've been fifteen unbeaten, and so a lot a
Speaker 3: lot of that started with the tough performance. And so
Speaker 3: that's what I keep saying to the guys that if
Speaker 3: we pull up, you know, if we can dig out
Speaker 3: our inner competitiveness right in our in our we don't
Speaker 3: give a damn type mentality, You're going to find ways
Speaker 3: to score goals. You're going to find ways to win games.
Speaker 3: It may not be drawn up like we do in training,
Speaker 3: but if you don't believe it, right, if you don't
Speaker 3: have the mindset, then then it's impossible to achieve. And
Speaker 3: then you start feeling like what you're talking about, which
Speaker 3: is a little bit nervy. You know, and so for me,
Speaker 3: from my perspective is it's always looking forward. We've done
Speaker 3: this in the past two years, and it usually started
Speaker 3: with a bad run of form, but we found a
Speaker 3: way and then once you get it going, all those
Speaker 3: experiences in the past that were very difficult to kind
Speaker 3: of deal with and at the time are now you know,
Speaker 3: steps on the ladder that you can climb up, right,
Speaker 3: And so I think that that for me is the
Speaker 3: most important thing, you know, because again it's it's not
Speaker 3: it doesn't feel good when you're in these in these moments,
Speaker 3: right and you you know you can. You can sit
Speaker 3: there and feel pity. But for me, it's always about
Speaker 3: challenging myself, challenging the group to be the best version
Speaker 3: of yourself, because every player has done something special to
Speaker 3: get to this level and it's our our job as
Speaker 3: coaches to unlock that that special talent and to play
Speaker 3: free and let me worry about the results. You just
Speaker 3: worry about doing your job and having a great.
Speaker 2: Performance, all right.
Speaker 1: So I reference the lineup slide with Forster up top
Speaker 1: and the midfield and you know back for a rough
Speaker 1: and goal.
Speaker 2: I don't know much about the Galaxy this year.
Speaker 1: I know that they won MLS couple year ago, and
Speaker 1: they're off to what I'm reading is the worst start
Speaker 1: in La Galaxy history.
Speaker 2: I do not know why.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can shed some light, so I would imagine
Speaker 1: they still have quality. So you might be expecting a
Speaker 1: little bit of a rabbit dog rolling into the stadium
Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday. But tell me about the Galaxy
Speaker 1: and if you care to help us understand how you're
Speaker 1: going to try to make some changes to improve this
Speaker 1: attack coming up on Saturday as the Galaxy rolling in town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, they're obviously in a tough run of
Speaker 3: form in the league. They lost their most important player
Speaker 3: in Ricky Pooge that dictated a lot. They've lost another striker, winger, Paincil,
Speaker 3: who is a speedy winger who's just now come back
Speaker 3: last game. But they're also in in the in the
Speaker 3: concer Cat Cup. And so they're actually playing tonight in Mexico.
Speaker 3: I'll check out the game. So they're they're in two
Speaker 3: tournaments and and you know this this league. The one
Speaker 3: thing I would say about form is that when the
Speaker 3: whistle blows, there's no such thing as forming this league. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's because any team can beat any team on any
Speaker 3: given day. And and so for me, it's really thinking
Speaker 3: about not their run of form, but what they're capable of.
Speaker 3: And if you win an MLS Cup a year before,
Speaker 3: you're can from from in, from my perspective, it's a
Speaker 3: great team because they have that and they just have
Speaker 3: to tap into that. So the way we're gonna deal
Speaker 3: with it is, again, they're they're coming, they're gonna they're
Speaker 3: gonna be in Mexico tonight and they're probably traveling back
Speaker 3: home and then coming out on Friday. So how do
Speaker 3: we how do we dictate the game with the ball
Speaker 3: but but be very ball secure and then finding some
Speaker 3: different relationships up front that are more goal dangerous and
Speaker 3: and see how it pans out for us. But but
Speaker 3: I believe that the most important aspect of how we're
Speaker 3: going to win this game at the weekend has to
Speaker 3: be with our mentality and our competitiveness. We have to
Speaker 3: be dogs everywhere on the field and and and and
Speaker 3: by that I also mean like we've got to be
Speaker 3: willing to make hard runs in the box even if
Speaker 3: the ball doesn't come. And that's competitiveness as well, and
Speaker 3: and and trusting your teammates and doing your job, and
Speaker 3: so all those little things will hopefully put us in
Speaker 3: a position to be the team that you know is
Speaker 3: capable of doing great things. So one team we obviously
Speaker 3: can't take lightly, but more importantly, I want to see
Speaker 3: a team that that competes the right way, that believes
Speaker 3: in themselves, regardless of who we have and who we
Speaker 3: don't have, and and and play some great football.
Speaker 1: All right, my guy, Well, best of luck on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get this thing turned around. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll do my best to get out there hopefully say
Speaker 1: hello and go get it man, go get three.
Speaker 3: Okay, sounds great spense, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But all right, Pablo Master, Johnny Ray else back in
Speaker 1: action against the LA Galaxy here and well, Sandy should
Speaker 1: be right there, should be right there where I'm pointing to.
Speaker 1: But it's a parking lot, different story, different day. It's
Speaker 1: been a slog. It has been a tough start. There
Speaker 1: are only three teams in MLS that have a worse
Speaker 1: goal differential than RSL, but one of them happens to
Speaker 1: be the LA Galaxy, who, after winning the Cup last year,
Speaker 1: have not won a match so far this year.
Speaker 2: Four and two. They've had some international duty.
Speaker 1: I guess some players banged up, but their goal differential
Speaker 1: is minus seven. They've scored five goals allowed twelve RSLs
Speaker 1: minus six. They've scored five goals, they've allowed eleven. Five
Speaker 1: goals in six games. Is not going to get it done.
Speaker 1: I did not ask Pablo about this because I do
Speaker 1: not ever want to put somebody in a position where
Speaker 1: they might be criticizing their literal employer. But I just
Speaker 1: have to wonder if the progress it feels like it
Speaker 1: is stalled as a result of the rumors with these
Speaker 1: players that they're trying to sign. Is it due to
Speaker 1: the current situation with the ownership change. It could be
Speaker 1: as simple as that. Now, the problem that we run
Speaker 1: into is on Thursday, it will be three weeks from
Speaker 1: this Thursday where the primary transfer window closes and then
Speaker 1: doesn't open again until the summer. And if RSL doesn't
Speaker 1: add pieces prior to this window closing, they will not
Speaker 1: be able to wait until the summer to add pieces
Speaker 1: to be able to do anything even kind of exciting.
Speaker 2: They will not make the playoffs. They won't even be
Speaker 2: close to it. The team's not good enough.
Speaker 1: They jettised in a ton of talent, some of the
Speaker 1: most talented players we've ever seen here in the market,
Speaker 1: Chie Show and Andres Gomez and Matt Crooks and others,
Speaker 1: and they have not brought in reinforcements.
Speaker 2: And I think it's unfair to the coach.
Speaker 1: And hopefully Pablo is getting what he needs from ownership
Speaker 1: some understanding that they just have put him in a
Speaker 1: bad spot. But it's been uninspiring. It's been boring, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: and not fun to watch, and they don't win. Not
Speaker 1: a great model if you're trying to play competitive soccer.
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