Speaker 1: Uh, he's on the Lunai again this week, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that he's quite pleased with the fact that the
Speaker 1: Wi FI is actually working out on the Lunai.
Speaker 2: So we bring in Tyler, Sir.
Speaker 1: We we are discussing, and I figured that you may
Speaker 1: you might have an opinion or two about what happened
Speaker 1: last night in Nashville.
Speaker 2: Pars.
Speaker 1: Pars is asking as someone who is starting to follow
Speaker 1: the us M and T or people overreacting. Uh, the
Speaker 1: answer would be, it's a day that ends, and why
Speaker 1: involved in sport?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: But yeah, literally, after what happened last night, the reaction
Speaker 1: literally you do the US M and T hashtag, it
Speaker 1: is off the rails, off the scale, and uh, we
Speaker 1: all need to kind of come back here. It's like,
Speaker 1: come on back, it's okay, it's okay, it's it's okay.
Speaker 1: Doors open, you can go ahead, you don't have to
Speaker 1: knock and come on in. It's okay, everything's fine.
Speaker 3: Uh, pars I will say, I mean, yes, everybody's overreacting.
Speaker 3: I think everybody has a right to be frustrated, for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean these have been poor performances as a whole.
Speaker 3: But the really cool thing about international soccer is that
Speaker 3: everybody tends to try to look at it in a
Speaker 3: club lens, and it doesn't work that way when you
Speaker 3: look at international soccer, you know, country soccer in a
Speaker 3: club lens, you think that you have to look at it,
Speaker 3: you know, with this fine tooth comb, and you know,
Speaker 3: the little tweaks and tactical changes and the players that
Speaker 3: get called in and out of camp, and the drama
Speaker 3: surrounding it and all that other stuff. At a club level,
Speaker 3: that stuff is emphasized way more. But on a country level,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, you you see these things happen and
Speaker 3: by the next cycle it's going to be done. News
Speaker 3: now it'll get brought up for sure, right like nobody's
Speaker 3: forgetting about it. But it's not like, you know, you
Speaker 3: have a game week after week after week and things
Speaker 3: just kind of pile on and pile on. There's really
Speaker 3: never any room for it to go away. In the
Speaker 3: sense of the US. I mean, what happens in the
Speaker 3: World Cup a year from now could be massively different
Speaker 3: than what's going on right now now. I don't think
Speaker 3: that's like a glass half full look necessarily. I just
Speaker 3: think it's that the entire system and the amount of
Speaker 3: talent and players that the US has and most countries
Speaker 3: have can change a lot in a full calendar year.
Speaker 3: So I mean they need work. I'm not even going
Speaker 3: to sit here and try to, you know, blow smoke
Speaker 3: like one hundred percent, Like these are not great performances
Speaker 3: at all, Like that was terrible last night, but it's
Speaker 3: not all doom and gloom and like the world's not lost.
Speaker 3: And if you know anything about Maricio Pochettino, when he
Speaker 3: comes into anywhere anywhere that he's been, he takes a
Speaker 3: minute to get going in general, and you just kind
Speaker 3: of have to hope that trusting the process is what
Speaker 3: has to happen here, because he's the guy. Unless he
Speaker 3: decides to randomly pull you know, cut bait and go
Speaker 3: somewhere else, which I very seriously doubt he would become
Speaker 3: the most hated person in US soccer if he did that.
Speaker 3: He's the guy, and so I think he knows the game,
Speaker 3: he knows how to motivate players, and I genuinely think
Speaker 3: by next year the US will be in a better
Speaker 3: position than they are now.
Speaker 1: Well, and I went over the lineup last night, and
Speaker 1: I've maintained that this is you're looking at possibly slots
Speaker 1: seven through eleven. If you're looking at a ranking system,
Speaker 1: what have you seven through eleven maybe, and then twelve
Speaker 1: through twenty six or twelve through twenty eight or twelve
Speaker 1: through thirty. You're trying to figure out, Okay, when I
Speaker 1: need somebody in an international situation, who can I dial
Speaker 1: up and count on and sit the end?
Speaker 2: Be comfortable with that choice.
Speaker 1: It's not you know, these individuals that I'm trotting out here,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be starting. They're gonna be starting every day.
Speaker 1: You know, Damn the torpedoes. I don't care who isn't here.
Speaker 1: This is my starting lineup. That's not what we're looking
Speaker 1: at here. I know that the Gold Cup you will
Speaker 1: have amplified importance about that starting lineup. But in these
Speaker 1: two friendlies, yes, the world fell down, but this is
Speaker 1: not going to be the starting eleven that you're trotting
Speaker 1: out unless you have ninety five players injured. And I'm
Speaker 1: being somewhat facetious in that this is not your starting
Speaker 1: eleven of your starting elevens. This is not your A
Speaker 1: this is not your A plus group. This is not
Speaker 1: that record that is registering a ninety two on the scale.
Speaker 1: This is like the seventy five that you're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out. Okay, do I like the rhythm here?
Speaker 2: Okay? I like that baseline up? You know, I want
Speaker 2: to find figure out do I like this band?
Speaker 1: This is this is a different layout from what you
Speaker 1: would anticipate because of the names that are not here.
Speaker 1: You're trying to figure out if the dudes that I've
Speaker 1: called in can be the dudes to help out the
Speaker 1: dudes that I want from my class A lineup.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean in a lot of ways, this is still
Speaker 3: a set of tryouts for Pochettino's team. And I see
Speaker 3: Wiley Cowdi's like, yeah, that's the thing. Then this is
Speaker 3: where I struggle. It doesn't help build the hype around
Speaker 3: next year. I mean, you look at I'm not trying
Speaker 3: to like transition this to something else, but like you
Speaker 3: have the Club World Cup starting in a couple of days,
Speaker 3: and you know, we see the ticket prices and we
Speaker 3: see all the people talking about like the lack of
Speaker 3: hype and everything else. You look at the stadium last night,
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, like these these
Speaker 3: games they were glorified friendlies, and I think you get
Speaker 3: to the gold Cup and then you start really asking questions.
Speaker 3: But I think for Pochettino, this is a matter of,
Speaker 3: like we I really want to know who, specifically, who
Speaker 3: I'm calling to the World Cup in a year, and
Speaker 3: I need to know without a shadow of it, doubt
Speaker 3: that selection of guys is going to be the ones
Speaker 3: that I know I can do something with. And if
Speaker 3: look if Diego Luna, if I pull him in he
Speaker 3: still continues to ball out, then maybe he deserves a shot,
Speaker 3: you know. Like and I think you've seen some guys
Speaker 3: maybe they're just not ready for the occasion and that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, when you represent your country, it's
Speaker 3: all about those big moments and it's all about trying
Speaker 3: to make something happen when maybe the deck is stacked
Speaker 3: against you. And last night, like that was a that
Speaker 3: was a tough performance. It was it was awful. Ye.
Speaker 3: So I mean I think when you when you look
Speaker 3: at it from a coaching perspective and taking away all
Speaker 3: the other drama that happened, you know, with polistic and
Speaker 3: all that, which I'm sure y'all talked about at some point.
Speaker 2: So right to a larger point, and that'll be what
Speaker 2: we talk about next.
Speaker 3: But you know, you take away all that and it's
Speaker 3: just Poachatino's coming in. He has a mandate, he has
Speaker 3: a job that he's trying to do. And he he said,
Speaker 3: you know, like, I'm not going to stick with the
Speaker 3: same guys that have been kind of floating around and
Speaker 3: locked in for the past, you know, X number of years, like,
Speaker 3: and you can't do that in one game. You can't
Speaker 3: do that in one cycle. You can't do that in
Speaker 3: two cycles. Like. It takes time to really figure out
Speaker 3: what you're working with. And I agree with what he
Speaker 3: did and what he said he was going to do with,
Speaker 3: you know, bringing in guys that are actually playing minutes
Speaker 3: for their club teams and not just random guys that
Speaker 3: are in Europe maybe on the bench all the time.
Speaker 3: Like it makes sense to me now, you know, Now
Speaker 3: you've got to see who who the hype was really
Speaker 3: there for and who it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there's one position between the sticks where
Speaker 1: somebody really needs some playing time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot, a lot, and and you know apparently
Speaker 3: that's maybe gonna change soon.
Speaker 1: Well I'm I mean, I mean, is the check on
Speaker 1: a clear Yeah it is asking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a random money being pulled out of couch
Speaker 3: cushion somewhere. I feel like it's it's kind of like
Speaker 3: that thing where you you went out and bought the
Speaker 3: you know, one hundred inch TV and you put it
Speaker 3: on the credit card and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: like oh, the debt man comes calling and then you're
Speaker 3: like scrambling to let me go get like a fifty
Speaker 3: inch TV, but I've got to pay for it in cash.
Speaker 3: And that's what's happening with said ownership group.
Speaker 1: Ah mean, it's yeah, so you get a FIFA judgment.
Speaker 1: We talked about that last week where FIFA judgment three
Speaker 1: plus interest and then eighteen plus interest in various sections
Speaker 1: of a year's worth of interest. And then yesterday it
Speaker 1: comes across that Matt Turner might be moving from.
Speaker 2: One club to another, and the club.
Speaker 1: But the club of the first part is it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: eight million euro Okay, Well is this like are you
Speaker 1: are you are you to the point where you're serving
Speaker 1: number two right now? Or are you still serving number one?
Speaker 1: And number two is trying to cut in line because
Speaker 1: it's less money.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things that you're they're
Speaker 1: kind of staring at right now. And for those that
Speaker 1: might have missed it, Matt Turner is allegedly possibly maybe
Speaker 1: moving from Nottingham Forest to Leon for eight million euro
Speaker 1: And then for those that Della Della is not dellas
Speaker 1: maybe not necessarily wrong, Leon is not answering the phone.
Speaker 2: Uh but Leon.
Speaker 1: It was judged and adjudicated by FIFA that they apparently
Speaker 1: oh Atlanti United over the transaction of an individual who
Speaker 1: scored for his club last night when they were down
Speaker 1: a man to equalize in a very important match for
Speaker 1: the rest of conno ball, not necessarily for themselves except
Speaker 1: just to get a result. That a particular Eagle Football
Speaker 1: Holdings allegedly.
Speaker 2: Owes Atlanta United up of twenty one million.
Speaker 1: Dollars plus interest over the transaction of that individual who
Speaker 1: scored last night for his ten man team in Argentina.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll take care of this one because it's
Speaker 1: got less money. It's like, oh, look, sofa pizza and
Speaker 1: a couple of nicols.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 1: So we'll figure it out with that. So that's the
Speaker 1: Matt Turner situation. Matt Freeze might have pushed himself a
Speaker 1: little further up the line. Zach Stephen is out with
Speaker 1: an injury and he's getting treated for a surgery with
Speaker 1: his knee, and I think he's slated to be out
Speaker 1: four to six weeks for the Rapids, and that's never
Speaker 1: good news out with the Rabbid Prairie Dogs and the
Speaker 1: rest of their season. So the keeper situation for the
Speaker 1: USM and T is one where you're scratching your head,
Speaker 1: but you need reps. And I know that we could
Speaker 1: probably talk to Brad Gazan about needing reps when it
Speaker 1: comes to being a national team keeper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm trying to look at
Speaker 3: kind of like what he's looked at lately. But I
Speaker 3: think you know, you're one of your next guys that
Speaker 3: you've got to look at would be now Again, it's
Speaker 3: a year from now. Sticking to what we were saying earlier,
Speaker 3: but you got to look at Ethan Worvath. I mean,
Speaker 3: is Ethan getting minutes?
Speaker 2: He is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is. He last played May third for Norwich.
Speaker 3: Or he gets I'm sorry, I get Sworg. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: getting ninety minutes fairly consistently.
Speaker 2: It looks like checking.
Speaker 3: But that's the thing though, I mean, at the end
Speaker 3: of the day. That's the most important thing for a
Speaker 3: keeper is you've got to be getting minutes. And like,
Speaker 3: you know, we we have that conversation about Atlanta and
Speaker 3: not at all the time, maybe not so much this year,
Speaker 3: but I still have PTSD from it a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago when Brad got injured and then you went
Speaker 3: through eight hundred and fifty seven different goalkeepers over the
Speaker 3: course of a year, and it's like, you know, you
Speaker 3: need minutes, like Josh Cohen right now. You know, last year,
Speaker 3: we'll use that as example. He got put in obviously
Speaker 3: for the Open Cup. There was that moment Brad got
Speaker 3: a red card, had to miss a game. He got
Speaker 3: put in for that one, and he wasn't the best,
Speaker 3: but his talent's there. You can't expect a guy to
Speaker 3: just step onto the field like that and just perform,
Speaker 3: you know, amazingly, essentially coming in cold. So that, honestly
Speaker 3: is one of my biggest concerns going into next year,
Speaker 3: is because I feel like since and I don't remember
Speaker 3: the game or set of games, and honestly, I think
Speaker 3: really it was after the last World Cup, Matt Turner
Speaker 3: has not been that guy that he was to the
Speaker 3: same degree. So You've got to get that figured out
Speaker 3: because you need somebody. I mean, this is not gonna
Speaker 3: be what was it, twenty.
Speaker 1: Ten, it's gonna say you work in math back I
Speaker 1: am working math backwards fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with Tim Howard. I mean, you hope you have
Speaker 3: kind of like those kind of performances, but like you
Speaker 3: need somebody that is playing confident. And I don't know
Speaker 3: that any of the goalkeepers right now. Zack Stefan maybe
Speaker 3: to a degree obvious until he got injured, but I
Speaker 3: just don't know that it even playing very confident right now.
Speaker 1: Well, and the biggest thing about Zach Stephan is trying
Speaker 1: to develop working the ball with his feet. Yes they're
Speaker 1: not necessarily distribution with the hands and saving ability, but
Speaker 1: it's that one the third element working the working the
Speaker 1: ball with your feet and trying trolling it and you know,
Speaker 1: work it to the edges. Dell wondering if they played
Speaker 1: Matt Turner, trying to give him a platform to finalize
Speaker 1: a deal, and I don't think so. I think it was, Uh,
Speaker 1: you're you're thinking about things in that prism, Dell of Okay,
Speaker 1: I got to focus on what's going on in front
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 2: And if it ends up being a.
Speaker 1: Collateral element of it where oh he played well, and
Speaker 1: then you know, if you know Nottingham Forest and Egle
Speaker 1: Football Holdings and sit there and go ooh, look, you
Speaker 1: know we're we're we're selling, We're we're moving on a
Speaker 1: player who did really well for his national team. Or
Speaker 1: Leona would be like, oh, we're getting a guy who
Speaker 1: played really well for his national team. And now they're like, oh, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so that happened in Nashville, so you have I don't
Speaker 1: know if I don't think that they were playing him
Speaker 1: just to try to finalize a deal. I think it
Speaker 1: was honestly, you're trying to get the man reps to
Speaker 1: see if he wants to take that number one mantle
Speaker 1: and be the guy Capital T Capital G. But last
Speaker 1: night did not help matters when it came to that.
Speaker 1: So you know, then you end up we talked about
Speaker 1: keeper and then you've got striker where obviously you know,
Speaker 1: front row a lot of the big guns. And this
Speaker 1: is why I said you're looking at seven through twenty
Speaker 1: six or twelve through twenty six as opposed to one
Speaker 1: through eleven because of who wasn't there everybody on the
Speaker 1: front row. You're looking for a second, you're looking for
Speaker 1: another guy. You know who the guys are going to be,
Speaker 1: Capital T, Capital G. But you're looking for other guys
Speaker 1: and you're waiting for somebody else to sit there and
Speaker 1: once again grab that mantle and you know, grab the
Speaker 1: reins and sit there and go yep, I'm in. And
Speaker 1: they've put a big pat out there for a match
Speaker 1: and a half and you know, I think it's still
Speaker 1: a work in progress with Patrick Agemok, but you understand
Speaker 1: the why where that was concerned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally understand the why, and I think it's
Speaker 3: just it's so frustrating from a fan perspective that nobody
Speaker 3: will I mean this has been for years. Nobody will
Speaker 3: just take that that number nine spot and just grab
Speaker 3: it and make it their own. Yeah, because you've had
Speaker 3: you know, this kind of like rotating group over the
Speaker 3: past really what six years, seven years, I mean it's
Speaker 3: it's been a while and you've had some good performances,
Speaker 3: but you haven't had that guy that just you know,
Speaker 3: just like you do in club football, that when he's
Speaker 3: up there, there's danger at every single moment, at any minute,
Speaker 3: he could he could make something happen out of nothing.
Speaker 3: It just hasn't been that. I mean, and I think
Speaker 3: I think trying to roll out.
Speaker 2: Oh that was a heavy sigh, Yeah it was.
Speaker 3: That's is how phil about this team right now? I
Speaker 3: think Ajumong is the one that you had to go
Speaker 3: with because he's been in form probably you're one of
Speaker 3: your your better us MNT players that have been called
Speaker 3: up in the past couple of cycles, just consistent. And
Speaker 3: then he's actually, you know, he's been doing well with Charlotte.
Speaker 3: Obviously Diego Luna is not playing as a nine, but
Speaker 3: I think he's he's obviously done well for himself. Then
Speaker 3: you go and you look back at the kind of
Speaker 3: the rest of that striker pool, and it's like, besides
Speaker 3: moments of brilliance, who is stepping up and really saying
Speaker 3: like I deserve a spot in one year when we
Speaker 3: play UH in our home country in the World Cup.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you've got anybody that you could
Speaker 3: just say we're sure is locked in.
Speaker 1: Three saves from Matt Turner, two saves from inside the box,
Speaker 1: thirty nine touches twenty three to thirty three, passing at
Speaker 1: seventy percent four of fourteen on long balls and a
Speaker 1: bunch of zeros across the board in other categories. Punches,
Speaker 1: high claims, key passes, crosses, clearances, blocks, all the defensive categories.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a lot of zeros from Matt Turner,
Speaker 1: who punched a six point two. According to our friends
Speaker 1: at SOFA score, everybody who's in the starting eleven. By
Speaker 1: the way, last night for the US punched a six plus.
Speaker 1: They were between six to zero and six six, I
Speaker 1: think was the highest rate.
Speaker 3: Fascinating to me. I have it pulled up on fot
Speaker 3: mob and it's a totally different ratings.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what was fot mob's ratings.
Speaker 3: Well, Matt got it. Now, of course it's still out
Speaker 3: of ten, but Matt got an even five understood honestly.
Speaker 3: The only person that broke all the subs, all the
Speaker 3: subs that came in so Tolkien, Reem Maleak Tillman, Diegluna,
Speaker 3: Pat and Damien Downs all hit sixes are above, which
Speaker 3: is good. The only one that hit above a seven
Speaker 3: was Malik Tilman. Yeah, Brian White with a five to six,
Speaker 3: uh Cardosa with a five to one, Burholter with a
Speaker 3: five to one, but the lowest by far, was, in
Speaker 3: fact Matt Turner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a surprise.
Speaker 1: Then Ropes mentions what TT put out on the two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty character app mentioning the Gold Cup roster
Speaker 1: back in twenty one, where it was Turner, Reggie Cannon,
Speaker 1: James Sands, Miles, George Bellow on the left hand side,
Speaker 1: Eric Williamson, Kellen Acosta, Sebastian Legit, Paul Ariola Josse's artist,
Speaker 1: and Matthew Hoppy and so zero buzz around anything hosting
Speaker 1: the World Cup in a year and in the fan base,
Speaker 1: player pull, coaches and federation zero buzz. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: they are arguing, they are getting discussed, but it to
Speaker 1: no no, And this was in right now you're going
Speaker 1: into the Gold Cup, and I will be intrigued how
Speaker 1: Mercia Pochatino responds in a Gold Cup setting. So this
Speaker 1: literally folks talking about what was going on. Yes, there
Speaker 1: are things that you can refer to, but those were
Speaker 1: friendlies leading into the Gold Cup. And now you've sit
Speaker 1: there and you look at the Gold Cup, that's the
Speaker 1: next marker on the board. How do they respond from
Speaker 1: what happened in these two friendlies to what's happening, what's
Speaker 1: anticipated in the Gold Cup, then I think that you
Speaker 1: have better markers. But once again, you're still building toward
Speaker 1: a year from now. Much like the National Training Center,
Speaker 1: you are building to a year from now, and you
Speaker 1: want everything to be unveiled and you want it to
Speaker 1: be just right. Where you're eleven is your eleven. Your
Speaker 1: studs are your studs. You know who's coming in, and
Speaker 1: that's that's where we are. And so the fact that
Speaker 1: folks mentioned four years ago, that's cool and everything. And
Speaker 1: I know that you want to sit there and compare
Speaker 1: coaches and you want to ish on coaches, which is
Speaker 1: I think kind of in a backhanded way with that
Speaker 1: pictogram was all about on the two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character APT but that's just me.
Speaker 2: Social media used to ish on people. Gee, that never happens.
Speaker 3: I know, it's like wild, This is like unheard of.
Speaker 3: I think Pochettino again, I mean, y'all know my feelings.
Speaker 3: I love Marisa Pochatino. Been kind of going back to
Speaker 3: what I said earlier. Club and country football are two
Speaker 3: different beasts. And my only concern is simply that for
Speaker 3: everything I said about how things can change a lot
Speaker 3: between cycles and obviously a full calendar year. It's to me,
Speaker 3: it seems clear that Pochaettino's trying to kind of force
Speaker 3: implement the style that he wants this team to play
Speaker 3: no matter who he calls up. And I don't I mean,
Speaker 3: you can't look last night and say that there was
Speaker 3: a semblance of an identity. I think it was pretty rough.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: The biggest gamble roll of the dice that he's dealing
Speaker 3: with right now is can he get that group and
Speaker 3: what of a group he happens to bring in, you know,
Speaker 3: for the for the big showdown in a year. Can
Speaker 3: he get his style implemented between now and then?
Speaker 1: And there aren't a whole lot of tournament opportunity exactly,
Speaker 1: And that's the hook here. So your Gold Cup roster
Speaker 1: for just so we know, going in Matt Turner, and
Speaker 1: this is numerically, This is not but with any kind
Speaker 1: of favoritism whatsoever. This is numerically according to our friends
Speaker 1: at conkor CAP, Matt Turner, John Tolkien, Chris Richards, Tyler Adams,
Speaker 1: who had an auchi and we don't know the extent
Speaker 1: of it. And that's why he didn't play last night.
Speaker 1: Better to be safe leading into the Gold Cup than not,
Speaker 1: Walker Zimmerman, Jack McGlenn, Quinn Sullivan, Sebastian Burhalter, Damien Downs, Diego,
Speaker 1: Luna Brendan Aaronson, Miles Robinson, Tom Reem, Looka Delatore, Johnny
Speaker 1: Alex Freeman, Malick Tillman, Max Arston, Hodgie Wright, Nathan Harriel, Paxton, Aaronson,
Speaker 1: Mart McKenzie, Brian White, Patrick Adjamong, Matt Frees and Chris Brady.
Speaker 1: So pretty much the same group that you had in
Speaker 1: those two friendlies is rolling over to the Gold Cup
Speaker 1: and we will see, we will see what continuity can
Speaker 1: do in the learning process with Marcio Pochettino leading this
Speaker 1: group into the Gold Cup. So that that's your that's
Speaker 1: your that's your that's your lineup and your folks. One
Speaker 1: through is legitimately one through twenty six. Is is every
Speaker 1: number one, two, three, four fought that that that I
Speaker 1: think so, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it is sequentially. So those are the twenty
Speaker 1: six dudes. They didn't skip a number, That's what I
Speaker 1: was checking to see if they they skipped a number.
Speaker 1: But that's your that's your twenty six going into the
Speaker 1: Gold Cup, and that is going to be starting at
Speaker 1: post haste. I Glenn Crooks is coming up in our
Speaker 1: number two and I asked him, I said I. I said, Glenn,
Speaker 1: do we know why there's a match on a Thursday
Speaker 1: in the Bronx And he didn't know if there was
Speaker 1: why there was a match at Thursday in the Bronx
Speaker 1: unless you wanted to be just the big dog and
Speaker 1: be the only show in town across an entire league,
Speaker 1: as everybody comes back to playing if you're unless you're
Speaker 1: in like the Club World Cup or something where you're
Speaker 1: almost everybody is playing.
Speaker 2: But there's a match Thursday in.
Speaker 1: The Bronx and no one from NYC who is out
Speaker 1: on international duty is going to be playing. So it
Speaker 1: looks like it's going to be Tomas Romero in net
Speaker 1: for for NYC, and you will also you will not
Speaker 1: have other folks up top, which means that Bakrar is
Speaker 1: going to be starting in your attack. But once again,
Speaker 1: at the U twelve pitch in the Bronx, anything as possible.
Speaker 1: So with the races against time for the twelve to
Speaker 1: fourteen Atlanta United folks coming back to this particular part
Speaker 1: of the planet, what kind of a man you anticipated?
Speaker 3: An absolute cluster I mean, it's so hard to play
Speaker 3: with any sort of true identity. It's it's hard for
Speaker 3: New York City, if we're being honest, to play with
Speaker 3: an identity on a baseball field. But they make it
Speaker 3: work because that's their home field and they develop a
Speaker 3: style that fits playing in such a small, confined space. Man,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have at least some of your quick guys.
Speaker 3: From an Atlanta perspective, it's gonna be ugly football. I
Speaker 3: think you just kind of have to like own that
Speaker 3: and say, hey, we're gonna go it's it's gonna be ugly.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be wild. The defenders you need to be
Speaker 3: to be on the entire time. Yeah, I mean you've
Speaker 3: got to be switched on and be precise, be aggressive,
Speaker 3: and I think you have to go into it with
Speaker 3: that mindset that it doesn't matter what the other side
Speaker 3: of the pitch does. We're coming out here with a
Speaker 3: clean sheet, you know. I know, if we can, if
Speaker 3: we can snag your goal or two or whatever, and
Speaker 3: in Atlanta's done it on the baseball fields before then,
Speaker 3: I think you you have a chance here. I think,
Speaker 3: and obviously not all of them are going to be here,
Speaker 3: but We talked last week about like what this international
Speaker 3: break would do for Atlantian and out of players, and
Speaker 3: we kind of kind of touched on our show and
Speaker 3: on the website, but essentially, like most of the Alantian
Speaker 3: out of players, first team, second team, academy, all of
Speaker 3: them had pretty good international windows so far, so you
Speaker 3: kind of hope that they're coming back with a little
Speaker 3: bit of like renewed vigor. And you can then look
Speaker 3: at the guys that have been here the whole time,
Speaker 3: and Daila has you know, kind of tweaked things, fine
Speaker 3: tuned things a little bit, and they they come out
Speaker 3: and they look also at the fact that this is
Speaker 3: the beginning of the second half of the season, and
Speaker 3: they say, hey, wipe the slate clean, let's go up
Speaker 3: to New York. Let's start this second half of the
Speaker 3: season off right. Forget what happened the first time around.
Speaker 3: And the season's not over yet. But no matter what,
Speaker 3: it's going to be ugly. It's you're playing on tiny pitch,
Speaker 3: not often that you can play you know, beautiful football
Speaker 3: in such a confined space.
Speaker 1: What that's a confined space? I don't know, ask Peter
Speaker 1: Urmes how confined it is? But it is regulation. It
Speaker 1: is regulation, yes, So to recap Luisa bram Out for Puru,
Speaker 1: Miggy out for Pataguay, and the video that the Hoff
Speaker 1: and Digo Pinzone have been releasing from their their field
Speaker 1: trip down there has been nothing short of cool. Luke
Speaker 1: Brennan for the U twenties, DCQ for the U eighteens,
Speaker 1: No a Cob for the U twenties, Jay Fortune who
Speaker 1: played last night for Trinidad and Tobago in their concor
Speaker 1: CAF qualifier that they lost to one Lots a Lot
Speaker 1: for Ivory Coast.
Speaker 2: But all he had to do is play two.
Speaker 1: Friendlies as a part of the Canadian Shield sponsored by
Speaker 1: the Nationalistic Tire Company, I believe, and he scored his
Speaker 1: pen and so.
Speaker 2: All he's had to do.
Speaker 1: All he's got to do is navigate the security lines
Speaker 1: and the travel from the QEW to Pearson and Pearson
Speaker 1: flying into JFK. So you know, maybe he gets to
Speaker 1: get late check out at the hotel and kind of
Speaker 1: fly over today and meet everybody else as they fly
Speaker 1: up this afternoon. So I think that Lats a Lot
Speaker 1: might have the easiest travel plan of everybody. Saba scored
Speaker 1: for Georgia and he's coming back from Europe. Ephran Morales
Speaker 1: for Bolivia, Bart Sleish who scored for Poland, he's coming back.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there are some folks that are going to
Speaker 1: be traveling back today and are going to be traveling
Speaker 1: back today, meaning you know, more than one stop.
Speaker 2: And it's okay, great, I got to layover. This is great.
Speaker 2: So how long is a lay over? Three and a half?
Speaker 2: How great? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So, I mean this is going to be adventures in travel.
Speaker 1: I mean, Rick Steves ain't got nothing on Atlanta United
Speaker 1: and the twelve to fourteen players that are trying to
Speaker 1: work their way back.
Speaker 2: To this part of the plant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a lot, and it's from everywhere. And
Speaker 3: one of the ones you mentioned Slish, I think one
Speaker 3: thing I'm really curious about with him is there was
Speaker 3: a little bit of drama with the Polish national team
Speaker 3: kind of at the end of this this window. And uh,
Speaker 3: I don't know that it's it's gonna affect him, but
Speaker 3: it clearly like the team was rather upset about some decisions,
Speaker 3: some things that were said. But I still I still
Speaker 3: feel like this was a great opportunity for a lot
Speaker 3: of these guys to build some confidence and kind of reset,
Speaker 3: and some of them are going to have to play
Speaker 3: tomorrow the ones that can, because you also have to remember,
Speaker 3: you have a lot of time after this, like this
Speaker 3: is that weird one game in the middle of you know,
Speaker 3: the ocean. Yeah, and then after that you have more
Speaker 3: time off. So if you can give me thirty, give
Speaker 3: me thirty and let's go make account. You're not having
Speaker 3: to run as much because again you're playing on a
Speaker 3: baseball field, so it's not like you're covering you know,
Speaker 3: the amount of space and everything that you would like
Speaker 3: at the bens. So these guys that can be there,
Speaker 3: that can make the team sheet, you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: rely on all of them because it is not going
Speaker 3: to be an eleven guy effort. This is gonna be
Speaker 3: you know, the full eleven guys plus the subs.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if we workshop this through, it's probably
Speaker 1: some combination. And like I said, this is taking travel
Speaker 1: and assuming the worst case travel scenarios that it's probably
Speaker 1: something along the lines of what Pedro Ronald Derek Brooks
Speaker 1: click what Alexi. Unless Alexi went back to play in
Speaker 1: Russian national friendly is not recognized internationally, you don't have
Speaker 1: to gash, you don't know what your recovery is right
Speaker 1: now involving Tristan william Bah, it's probably Jamal.
Speaker 2: Who am I? Who am I missing? Here? What are we?
Speaker 2: What am I? As we're work shopping this? What am
Speaker 2: I missing?
Speaker 3: Let's see? I mean, you know Brooks Linnen was the
Speaker 3: odd one because he's kind of had that lingering, yeah, injury,
Speaker 3: but I think if he can play, he's gonna have
Speaker 3: to play. Let's see you said click?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was Pedro, Ronnie Derek Brooks as you're
Speaker 1: back four probably uh and I don't think you need
Speaker 1: I don't think you need five at the U twelve
Speaker 1: pitch football pitch on the Bronx.
Speaker 2: I hope not.
Speaker 1: You just you need folks just kind of jammed into space.
Speaker 1: So click, I like said Alexi Jamal. Uh so that's
Speaker 1: and Brad is.
Speaker 3: A ban Brad so I can get my numbers right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Matt Brad with a back four, Matt Edwards
Speaker 1: makes it nine and then trying to figure out who
Speaker 1: races in and turns into ten and eleven?
Speaker 2: Uh up top.
Speaker 1: I guess it would be like, you know, if you
Speaker 1: sit there and you try to figure out what it's
Speaker 1: going to look like up top that might be.
Speaker 2: What you're staring at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just thinking of because, like you said, I
Speaker 3: don't know that, like like Tristan.
Speaker 2: I don't know where Tristan is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know that he's.
Speaker 2: Going to be.
Speaker 3: Who else? Who else? Elds Man.
Speaker 2: This is tough, I know.
Speaker 1: And that's why I was trying to because and this,
Speaker 1: and this was one of the questions that a lot
Speaker 1: of folks were wondering. It's like, well, do you want
Speaker 1: to be do you? And this is one that that
Speaker 1: Garth has answered. Do you want to have a club
Speaker 1: that has all of these call ups? Or do you
Speaker 1: want to be a club that doesn't have these call ups?
Speaker 3: Will Riley?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Will Riley, I like that. There you go.
Speaker 3: I actually kind of like that. Yeah, that combination in
Speaker 3: the midfield because Will Riley's going to give you the
Speaker 3: legs and some aggression. Click's going to give you hopefully
Speaker 3: some some good through balls and stuff like that, and
Speaker 3: then you can just again just go.
Speaker 2: So it's really really hard at New York that in
Speaker 2: the Ish housing that you'll need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know Ish Houser extraordinary, absolutely true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, with that lineup.
Speaker 1: Oh oh and Eddie fast Eddie Yes, And so I
Speaker 1: think that that that might get you to what you
Speaker 1: so uh so you're looking at the Matt Jamal Musquitta click.
Speaker 2: Will Riley.
Speaker 1: Back for and Brad Yeah, so okay, and then just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, Okay, who's flying back, who do
Speaker 1: I have and how many minutes can you give me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you get two weeks off or thirteen days off,
Speaker 1: and then it's two matches in four days where you're
Speaker 1: at Columbus and at the Erector set, so.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, you know, Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: So, I mean it's as you look at the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. The one element in that it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're playing on a Thursday, but we've got thirteen days
Speaker 1: to get it all figured out and squared away before
Speaker 1: we play two and four. And it just happens to
Speaker 1: be at Columbus and in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I guess glass half full. Columbus is struggling
Speaker 3: right now, struggling, yes, And Miami will be in the
Speaker 3: middle of the Club World Cup.
Speaker 2: Well yeah.
Speaker 1: And then that's the other thing is that if they
Speaker 1: are in the Club World Cup and they're kind of busy.
Speaker 1: Then do you end up having to reschedule that match, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which creates scheduled compression for Messi and friends and they're
Speaker 1: over thirty legs later on in the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean, and then maybe a little bit
Speaker 3: of PTSD from the end of the season last year.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's it's definitely
Speaker 3: an interesting end to the month because we all went
Speaker 3: into this and I'm not about to like chicken and
Speaker 3: egg this scenario and they gotta go win the games.
Speaker 3: But New York City, you you, you kind of have
Speaker 3: some pieces there that you can make work. I think
Speaker 3: if you go into it with the right game plan, yeah,
Speaker 3: and the right mentality first and foremost, you have a chance.
Speaker 3: Columbus struggling, you just have to hope that like many teams,
Speaker 3: Atlanta is not there get right game yeah. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: Miami like a yeah, coin toss because either a they're
Speaker 3: going to be tired from just the NonStop Club World
Speaker 3: Cup stuff, or B it might have to get pushed
Speaker 3: back or or.
Speaker 1: You end up with the poorest defense that that literally
Speaker 1: literally the not whole gang, the not whole gang of dese. Literally,
Speaker 1: you're kind of It's like you could give up, you
Speaker 1: could give up five and and get into a five
Speaker 1: four or six five with them, or they could be
Speaker 1: mad and then they could score five and then Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you don't you literally do not know which
Speaker 1: Which and Friends version you're going to get from the
Speaker 1: Justice League.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, I mean the end of the through the rest
Speaker 3: of June. It's it's an opportunity. It really is for Atlanta,
Speaker 3: and I think they have to acknowledge that and go
Speaker 3: grab it and make it happen.
Speaker 2: Yes, Club World Cup. Speaking of which are you are you?
Speaker 2: Are you looking forward to it? Are you? Are you
Speaker 2: looking at it as something else that's going to be
Speaker 2: picking up time? What do you? What do you think
Speaker 2: of the Club World Cup? I have yet to ask
Speaker 2: you this.
Speaker 3: I'm excited. I mean, I am excited about it. I
Speaker 3: think you know, I kind of talked about it a
Speaker 3: little bit about it, I think last week or whatever.
Speaker 3: But I wish that it had more more vibe outside
Speaker 3: of the soccer bubble. Yeah, you know, and I know
Speaker 3: that they've been trying to promote it to a degree.
Speaker 3: I just don't know that it's getting the the eyeballs
Speaker 3: that it probably deserves and should, but it's a fun tournament,
Speaker 3: like this is an opportunity to see, Like look right now,
Speaker 3: I think we put it up on Twitter earlier, but
Speaker 3: right now you can go watch Man's for like thirty
Speaker 3: three bucks in Mercedes ben Stadium.
Speaker 2: They got the twenty percent off coupon.
Speaker 3: Finally they got something. But I think that's the thing
Speaker 3: is a little discouraging, just because you know, ticket prices
Speaker 3: dropping are a sign of maybe a lack of interest.
Speaker 3: But I think more than that, it's also like we
Speaker 3: don't want to pay that much money to go see
Speaker 3: some of these games. It's not that we don't want
Speaker 3: to go see these teams, it's just that that's a
Speaker 3: lot of money. Man, Like not everybody is you know,
Speaker 3: money bags over here. What it can go and and
Speaker 3: you know, see these teams and follow them all around
Speaker 3: to wherever they're playing at and everything else. And I
Speaker 3: can only imagine for people traveling here from outside the country,
Speaker 3: like how much money they're having to spend. So I mean, overall,
Speaker 3: I just think, like I'm excited about it, and we'll
Speaker 3: be covering it. I just wish it had a little
Speaker 3: bit more like national hype and maybe non sock streams
Speaker 3: in the US. There's only so much you can do
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, so let's let's let's let's let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the ticket prices, shall we? Where
Speaker 1: it goes FIFA Club World Cup tickets artist and that
Speaker 1: that's what you look at when you're looking at what
Speaker 1: you're staring at here. So uh, just just for oh
Speaker 1: and hey, and promoted in the Club World Cup, in
Speaker 1: the Club World Cup, choices of matches promoted Jim Gaffigan.
Speaker 1: Everything is wonderful at Simphony Hall right there in the
Speaker 1: middle of it as a promoted element.
Speaker 2: That is amazing. Uh So let's see.
Speaker 1: So Chelsea and LAFC three o'clock on Monday afternoon. Let's
Speaker 1: just for the for the sake of argument. If you
Speaker 1: don't have anything going on, you don't and you're done
Speaker 1: watching General Hospital on Monday, get in price in the
Speaker 1: two hundred level fifty cents fifty to get in standard
Speaker 1: admission in the two hundred level for that particular matchup.
Speaker 1: No seats are available in the end zone up high
Speaker 1: in the three hundreds, you can pay, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to get into the three hundred level
Speaker 1: up top, you can pay anywhere from seventy three thirty
Speaker 1: five to one forty six seventy or one hundred and
Speaker 1: four dollars. If you wanted to be literally in the
Speaker 1: three hundred level right at midfield, Like right there at
Speaker 1: midfield in the three hundred level, you're paying north of
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks. But if you know where to look,
Speaker 1: you can pay fifty two forty to get into section
Speaker 1: two nineteen, or you can pay two twenty eight sixty
Speaker 1: or more if you wanted to be like a Section
Speaker 1: two twelve and be like right there at the fifty
Speaker 1: and get into the two hundred level. So that's what
Speaker 1: you're staring at with UH with the LAFC and Chelsea
Speaker 1: the hard Rock. By the way, I'll Ackley on Saturday
Speaker 1: involving Messy and Friends at eight o'clock seventy nine forty six.
Speaker 1: To get in the end zones in the three forty
Speaker 1: six's you can pay three thirty six. You can get
Speaker 1: into the corners for like seventy nine to forty so
Speaker 1: basically eighty bucks end zone in the three hundred level
Speaker 1: for ninety dollars to get into the hard rock eighty
Speaker 1: bucks in the other one if you want to get
Speaker 1: into the three hundred level and be above the club level,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and forty three dollars. So the the
Speaker 1: the dynamic pricing, dynamic pricing, I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to go dynamic.
Speaker 3: Pricing with a little bit of music in the background.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dynamic pricing, pew pew. You know. So it's still
Speaker 2: kind of out there a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I will be intrigued as to what Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: will technically what the hard rock is going to look like,
Speaker 1: and then everybody coming forward what it's going to look
Speaker 1: like on Monday with the Chelsea and LASC. I am
Speaker 1: intrigued to see what capacity is and what it looks
Speaker 1: like in that building for everybody. And apparently LAFC was
Speaker 1: mailing another hat yesterday. Yeah, we we haven't found out
Speaker 1: where that went to, right, No, we have not. No,
Speaker 1: we have not found out where that hat has getten
Speaker 1: has been mailed to. We have yet to see someone
Speaker 1: do the the head tilt up to expose their face,
Speaker 1: where in years past there's just been folks like Bob
Speaker 1: Bradley where the head has tilted down. You see the
Speaker 1: la f C, the winged beast and then you tilt
Speaker 1: up to go Bob Bradley.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've yet to see who that individual is who's
Speaker 2: tilting their head up this time, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean there was everybody's like, oh, it's gonna be Ronaldo.
Speaker 3: I think Renaldo came out and said he's not.
Speaker 2: Getting all Master. I think you said he was re
Speaker 2: upping at all Master.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but hey, maybe maybe he's pulling the long con.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 3: They're also going to be training down and making which
Speaker 3: is neat.
Speaker 2: Yes, are you going down for any of that? I
Speaker 2: am not.
Speaker 3: I am so so this Club World Cup, like our
Speaker 3: schedule is so wild because well we'll be doing the
Speaker 3: shows at the Signia at the hotel before each each
Speaker 3: one of the matches except for the Man City one,
Speaker 3: not doing the Man City one because.
Speaker 2: I forgot fucking night.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's but I'll actually be in Portugal. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: so I have a work trip. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 3: go visit Benficas Stadium, maybe Sporting Stadium while I'm there.
Speaker 2: You go and you get to see them there here.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, what you could do is you
Speaker 1: could find out what's going on with victor Yo koresh Yeah,
Speaker 1: and find out whether he's going on. If you go
Speaker 1: to sporting and sit there and wave your hands and go,
Speaker 1: what's the latest victory Joakrash? Is he staying or going?
Speaker 3: You know, I'll do some investigative reporting while I'm there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then then then you dial into the show
Speaker 1: where it's like two o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah circumstances, Yeah, it'll be it'll be super dark, like midnight.
Speaker 3: I'll be standing in the alley and be like, hey,
Speaker 3: guess what I just found out? All right, so hit
Speaker 3: the promo for me. What's going on?
Speaker 2: And uh what do folks need to be watching and
Speaker 2: paying attention to?
Speaker 3: So two things. Tonight at seven our normal show, except
Speaker 3: we're we're eating hot sauce.
Speaker 2: Oh who's so do you have a victim tonight?
Speaker 1: It's all of it's Oh okay, So I didn't you
Speaker 1: had someone from the outside who was hot saucing as well?
Speaker 3: No, because there's we thought about doing it like the
Speaker 3: traditional way where you have a moderator, but then we're
Speaker 3: like everybody wants to try the hot sauce, give their opinions,
Speaker 3: Like I'm taking it so seriously. That my wife, because
Speaker 3: I have to distribute some of this hot sauce out
Speaker 3: to Henry and Sydney. And she's like, I'm gonna pour
Speaker 3: it into the other containers. I don't even want you
Speaker 3: to smell it. I want whenever you tried on the
Speaker 3: show for it to be authentic. You haven't you know,
Speaker 3: tasted it yet or smelled it at all. So no,
Speaker 3: but it'll be all four of us. We're answering questions.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be covering you know, New York City and
Speaker 3: getting everything prepped for that and going over the international
Speaker 3: break and but you know, maybe some hot takes and
Speaker 3: some some hot questions and all that good stuff while
Speaker 3: eating eating six types of Atlanta Hot sauce. So that's that.
Speaker 3: That's tonight, and then tomorrow we're gonna be over at
Speaker 3: Sababa's Burgers at twenty nine twenty nine North Drupid Hills.
Speaker 3: Oh so, if if anybody's free, you want to come out,
Speaker 3: We're actually gonna be doing like a watch party. We're
Speaker 3: gonna be doing a quick show beforehand and then hanging
Speaker 3: out to They have a big one hundred inch like
Speaker 3: quad TV setup, so we'll be there kind of just
Speaker 3: hanging out. They have like Burger combos. It's a local Atlanta,
Speaker 3: a couple of brothers that that own it, and they've
Speaker 3: graciously opened their doors for us to go do a
Speaker 3: watch party there.
Speaker 2: Okay, very very cool.
Speaker 1: So it's a Sababa's for the watch party and then
Speaker 1: everybody gets to watch you tonight on sn s and
Speaker 1: sit there and completely and totally just go chase after
Speaker 1: water and milk.
Speaker 3: Yes, milk and radish. That's the other secret horsetratish.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was not aware of that one. Yes, that's very cool.
Speaker 3: It's kind of the and I know, I know, you
Speaker 3: gotta go real quick. It's the you know when there's
Speaker 3: a fire, Yeah, you build a bigger fire next to
Speaker 3: it to put that fire out. The horse rad is
Speaker 3: just but it's a quicker burn, so it pulls all
Speaker 3: that other heat away and then it just disappears.
Speaker 2: I was not aware of that, okay,