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Speaker 5: Little Soccer Our Guy Kurt Schmiz, the head han Show
Speaker 5: of the boss Man. Even though it's a it's a
Speaker 5: group thing over there. Kurt is the guy called the shots,
Speaker 5: constructing the roster.
Speaker 2: Kurt. Happy Friday, Sir, How are you.
Speaker 6: Friday?
Speaker 5: How about we do this when you guys play well,
Speaker 5: you take the credit, and when you don't, you say
Speaker 5: it's a group thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's a dynamic.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's that's very self serving.
Speaker 6: But sure, whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm trying.
Speaker 5: I'm looking out for you, man, that's I'm sure, Kurt,
Speaker 5: I have your back.
Speaker 2: I'm looking out for this.
Speaker 7: That's the old thing, right, players, players win the games,
Speaker 7: coach with loslam or something.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, there we go, there we go.
Speaker 5: I like it all right, scoreless draw in the opener
Speaker 5: for Cocky CAF Champions Cup. When you go on the road,
Speaker 5: obviously you want to get a result. What'd you like, Kurt?
Speaker 5: What you did in game? What did you not like
Speaker 5: Game one that took place on Wednesday.
Speaker 7: I think you know, going into the game, we knew
Speaker 7: it was gonna be difficult, and it's it's a difficult
Speaker 7: place to play. It's an unfamiliar environment for a lot
Speaker 7: of guys, and I thought they went down there and
Speaker 7: from a mentality standpoint, handled handled ourselves really well. You know,
Speaker 7: obviously we have some good chances to to getting away
Speaker 7: goal and take the lead. You know, we were a
Speaker 7: bit unlucky. We forced right as one on one and
Speaker 7: we had you know, a header that get cleared almost
Speaker 7: off the line, and I thought we created a couple
Speaker 7: of other really good opportunities. But mil mill on the
Speaker 7: road is is never a bad result in these types
Speaker 7: of two legas series, and we just have to come
Speaker 7: home and take care of business.
Speaker 5: What if anything, did you learn about the group, because
Speaker 5: you have a lot of players that made their debut,
Speaker 5: and obviously these are players that you and your staff
Speaker 5: have scouted for a while, so it's not like, hey,
Speaker 5: let's learn about them because we're watching them for the
Speaker 5: first time. But now that we've seen the group together,
Speaker 5: and of course there are some injuries that we'll get
Speaker 5: to in a moment, anything specific stand out to you
Speaker 5: about the guys that are making their debuts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think some of the some of the guys
Speaker 7: that debuted, especially some of the young guys, you know,
Speaker 7: acquitted themselves really well. I don't I don't think you'd
Speaker 7: come away from the game thinking that, you know, Kobe
Speaker 7: Henry's brand new when he's only twenty years old, or
Speaker 7: that you know, this is Forester's first game with the
Speaker 7: club and some of those guys, so I thought they,
Speaker 7: you know, some of the guys did a good job Rotha. Obviously,
Speaker 7: with his experience, you'd expect his composure and calm this.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: I thought Sam had to come in and in short
Speaker 7: notice with Alex coming out injured, and you know, despite
Speaker 7: not having a real warm up, came in and put
Speaker 7: together a pretty solid performance as well. So yeah, overall,
Speaker 7: I thought the guys did the new guys, you know,
Speaker 7: I thought didn't look very new.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: So you open up MLS play now and it's San
Speaker 5: Jose PayPal Park eight thirty mount in Time coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 5: Apple TVMLS Pass. Let's get all that out there, Kurt,
Speaker 5: because we're trying to grow the game, and I'm an advocate.
Speaker 2: I've got your back, So there you go.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: It's going to be a little bit odd, is it not?
Speaker 5: To see Chico on the other side. I mean, what
Speaker 5: are some of the emotions you think are kind of
Speaker 5: permeating through the organization as the opener happens to be
Speaker 5: against the team that employs the striker that you sent them.
Speaker 7: Honestly, we haven't talked about him much, right, I Mean,
Speaker 7: obviously we talk about it in terms of him being
Speaker 7: a player on their team that we need to game
Speaker 7: plan for. And look out for. But as far as
Speaker 7: like emotional or you know, emotionality, it's not it's not there, right,
Speaker 7: So it's not we're not talking in terms of like
Speaker 7: him being this this guy who's someone that's more than
Speaker 7: what he would be as a player. I mean, he's
Speaker 7: a good player that we're going to be very aware
Speaker 7: of going into the game. But but beyond that, I think,
Speaker 7: you know, we've we've done a really good job in
Speaker 7: this group has a phenomenal mentality of just staying focused
Speaker 7: on the.
Speaker 6: Task at hand. So I had.
Speaker 7: To give, you know, Pablo a lot of credit in
Speaker 7: keeping the group focused like that.
Speaker 5: So current news, excuse me, news came down a number
Speaker 5: of weeks ago that you guys were adding Elias Man. Well,
Speaker 5: I think that's how you say it if it's not
Speaker 5: my bad. And you know, Elias is a guy that
Speaker 5: has a good pedigree. Is a Brazilian striker, twenty three
Speaker 5: years old, eighteen goals, ten assists, eighty four games all comps,
Speaker 5: last three years with a team that went to the
Speaker 5: MLS Cup final. So I got ask you, man, what happened?
Speaker 5: How this thing fall apart?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I can tell you it's it's Elias, and
Speaker 7: I can tell you that that's what he told me
Speaker 7: when we spoke, and he seemed you know, we we
Speaker 7: spoke with him in his camp obviously before the trade
Speaker 7: and right after the trade, and you know, got on
Speaker 7: on a on a call with with Pablo and him
Speaker 7: and I and you know, it was it was all
Speaker 7: really positive and and he seemed really excited to come
Speaker 7: and and you know, explained him how we thought he'd
Speaker 7: fit into the team, and we were in a really
Speaker 7: good place until we weren't. And for whatever reason, he
Speaker 7: decided that, uh, you know, right before preseason he didn't
Speaker 7: didn't want to come, and that started some some discussions
Speaker 7: and also some disciplinary stuff. But at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, you know, we we we want people that
Speaker 7: want to be here, and we thought that was him,
Speaker 7: and as soon as it didn't didn't describe him, then
Speaker 7: we were we were in a different place and we
Speaker 7: had we knew we needed.
Speaker 6: To move on.
Speaker 7: I mean, we want people that want to be here.
Speaker 7: And the only way this thing worked is that people
Speaker 7: are bought in and and focused and on the job
Speaker 7: at hand and really want to be a part of
Speaker 7: this club, in this community. And anyone who doesn't have
Speaker 7: that we we don't need a part of the team,
Speaker 7: so we began looking for a solution and hopefully we're
Speaker 7: getting getting close to one here as well.
Speaker 5: Were you given any specifics? Was it I don't want
Speaker 5: to live in Utah? Was it I don't think I
Speaker 5: fit in?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: There were you given any specifics as to why Eleas
Speaker 5: did not want to move out here and play for
Speaker 5: the club?
Speaker 7: You know, nothing, nothing really clear. You know, it could
Speaker 7: have been could have been a little bit of that, although,
Speaker 7: like I said, when when we spoke with the player,
Speaker 7: none of that came up. His only real concern was
Speaker 7: was playing time because that was actually before things like
Speaker 7: Anderson Julio and Chichi Rongo.
Speaker 6: Before those moves were public, so he.
Speaker 7: Didn't he wasn't aware of those. So you know, once
Speaker 7: we talked to him through that, he was everything was
Speaker 7: really really good. So there was no specific reason that
Speaker 7: I was given, whether it was playing time or the
Speaker 7: city or just moving or contract stuff, you know, whatever
Speaker 7: it might be. But you know, once he broke that trust,
Speaker 7: it's it's really difficult to repair it.
Speaker 5: So the I mean, it's probably a dumb question, but
Speaker 5: what ultimately does this just mean? The trade is completely
Speaker 5: off and there's no harm done. You go your way,
Speaker 5: we go our way. Does the player get disciplined? Is
Speaker 5: there something that happens between the teams? Like what ultimately
Speaker 5: is the fallout when something like this actually happens.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there are disciplinary actions the league will take when
Speaker 7: a player isn't you know, upholding their their end of
Speaker 7: the contract. So that comes into play. As far as
Speaker 7: the trade, you know, the trade isn't undone does not
Speaker 7: come you know, don't do not become unwound. But you know, we,
Speaker 7: like I said, I think we've found a solution that
Speaker 7: makes us certainly whole at the end of the day.
Speaker 7: And we're still working to complete that. But that's what
Speaker 7: we've gone on the table.
Speaker 5: So you know, look, online rumors are just online rumors, Kurt,
Speaker 5: But obviously a lot of people are speculating that you
Speaker 5: have your eye on something different and you guys have
Speaker 5: moved on. Can you shed any light on the process
Speaker 5: of adding some talent there, you know, probably specifically up
Speaker 5: top at the number nine spots, since you guys had
Speaker 5: to move on from the player that you acquired.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, our search has been ongoing. We do,
Speaker 7: we do have a very very short list right now
Speaker 7: and are working on some of those acquisitions. Certainly, we
Speaker 7: have you know, obviously a priority, and we like some
Speaker 7: guys more than others, and we're trying to run run
Speaker 7: down each possibility in order. So that's that's where we're
Speaker 7: at right now. I mean, it's not like someone's going
Speaker 7: to show up on the bench or in the lineup tomorrow,
Speaker 7: but we feel like we're getting closed. But in the meantime,
Speaker 7: you know, I think guys like Forrester and you know,
Speaker 7: Forster Iago and Rspol have done really really well in
Speaker 7: pre season and have earned a shot to show what
Speaker 7: they can do. And I know Pablo has been very
Speaker 7: happy with them and keen to see what they can
Speaker 7: do in uh, you know, once they're battle tested and
Speaker 7: what they look like. So it's certainly it's certainly they
Speaker 7: deserve the shot, and we're going to evaluate that as well.
Speaker 7: But we do have a list of candidates that we
Speaker 7: can bring in and help aid and add some some
Speaker 7: quality to that rotation.
Speaker 5: What is the name of your first choice candidate that
Speaker 5: you would like to bring in and where does he play?
Speaker 5: That's probably not going to tell you, good try do
Speaker 5: you want to text me later you wanted to shit
Speaker 5: me up, text.
Speaker 7: Me later, Yeah, I'll do that all right, fair enough?
Speaker 5: Is it safe to say that you are looking at nines,
Speaker 5: I mean that's the spot you're looking to add.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's the one spot just numerically where
Speaker 7: we're a bit thin right, where we're the finish right now,
Speaker 7: and just even just from a number standpoint, So that's
Speaker 7: the spot that if we add another piece here, that's
Speaker 7: that's likely where we're going to add a piece.
Speaker 5: Any any other spot you're I mean, look, you you
Speaker 5: have built a roster that in certain spots as tremendous depth,
Speaker 5: like you're holding midfield, My goodness, you've got like five dudes, right,
Speaker 5: But you know the striker is the obvious option. Any
Speaker 5: other spots you're looking at to prior to the window closing.
Speaker 2: I think late April, well, I think he hit the nail.
Speaker 6: On the head.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, our depth everywhere else is pretty good.
Speaker 7: Our guests in the middle of midfield, you know, is
Speaker 7: I think, really really good with Macha O'heita, Palacio, Pablo
Speaker 7: Luiz and even you know Noel Koliskin who came in
Speaker 7: and gave us some good minutes the times last year too,
Speaker 7: so we're very deep there. I think we've added some
Speaker 7: good depth along the back line. You know, you saw
Speaker 7: Kobe Henry and Sam Junk weall play on Wednesday night,
Speaker 7: and I thought they both acquitted themselves really well. And
Speaker 7: so you know, it's a in a game where we
Speaker 7: didn't have Justin Glad available from the start. I think
Speaker 7: in years past, since I've been here, that would have
Speaker 7: been a much bigger problem then I think it was
Speaker 7: on Wednesday, and that's due to Kobe stepping up. And
Speaker 7: then we've got guys like Philip Quinton coming back in.
Speaker 7: So I think our depths everywhere else, you know, has
Speaker 7: been really good, even in the attacking midfield spots. You know,
Speaker 7: we've got a rookie in Haesusperea who's done really well also,
Speaker 7: and we'll push some guys for four minutes when he gets.
Speaker 6: Uh gets on board.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean everywhere else, we feel really good
Speaker 7: about the team.
Speaker 5: You referenced Jay Glad. Let's get an update on the
Speaker 5: health of Justin then. Also, obviously you know the rest
Speaker 5: of the club, uh, Diego.
Speaker 2: A lot of people.
Speaker 5: Wondering the deal with Diego Luna, what are we gonna
Speaker 5: see Diego, so Diego and Justin specifically, and then overall,
Speaker 5: how healthy are you heading into the MLS opener tomorrow?
Speaker 7: We are actually in pretty good health. We had a
Speaker 7: couple of injuries Diego, Phil Quinn early earlier in preseason. Luckily,
Speaker 7: those guys are just getting back right now. So I
Speaker 7: think you should see both those guys on the field tomorrow,
Speaker 7: whether it's off the bench or from the start. We
Speaker 7: we should see them play.
Speaker 6: Ari.
Speaker 7: You know, Ari Peel had a little bit of a hamstring,
Speaker 7: but he's it was very, very minor, and you know,
Speaker 7: he's kind of day to day, but but it is
Speaker 7: feeling better and better. And then even though Justin couldn't
Speaker 7: couldn't start on Wednesday, obviously still came in the game
Speaker 7: and so he's ready to go.
Speaker 5: Also, So just let me follow, So Diego should be
Speaker 5: available tomorrow against Vin San Jose.
Speaker 2: You should be oh good, okay, good, No, great news,
Speaker 2: great news.
Speaker 5: All right, Let's go back now real quick, because I
Speaker 5: wanted to ask you about the attacking group on Wednesday night,
Speaker 5: because obviously that's the spot that people are curious about.
Speaker 5: And Dominic started wide on the right. We had Diogo
Speaker 5: on the opposite side, and then it was Lochlan in
Speaker 5: central attacking mid just behind Forrester.
Speaker 2: That surprised me, but I'm not you.
Speaker 5: I would imagine you had an idea that Lachlan is
Speaker 5: a guy that I just figured Diogo was a little
Speaker 5: bit more naturally a central player.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't know my elbow from
Speaker 2: you know what about this sport.
Speaker 5: So tell me about the decisions as far as what
Speaker 5: Pablo decided to do with that attacking group, and then
Speaker 5: how you od they handled themselves on Wednesday night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we might we should probably start listing
Speaker 7: our formation differently, just just as familiar as people you
Speaker 7: know from this start, because it's always a four two
Speaker 7: three one with those two white guys, then a central ten,
Speaker 7: and it looks like pretty clear cut. But when we attack,
Speaker 7: you know, we really like to push our left back
Speaker 7: up high, you know, Alex or Sam Junkwa, whoever it is,
Speaker 7: and bring our left side a guy whether it's Luna
Speaker 7: or Diogo inside into sort of a more central space,
Speaker 7: and our central ten also drifts to the right in
Speaker 7: kind of a half space as well, so we play
Speaker 7: with sort of those two.
Speaker 6: Ten's in there, and with.
Speaker 7: Locke and Diego, the thought was to have them both
Speaker 7: in positions that in the attack they were coming outside
Speaker 7: in onto their stronger foot and could be a little
Speaker 7: bit more goal dangerous and more comfortable in that way.
Speaker 7: Lockey's played a lot as an inverted right winger coming
Speaker 7: into that half space from the wide spot, so he's
Speaker 7: he's comfortable in that space. And Diego's played a lot,
Speaker 7: you know, as a white player on either side, to
Speaker 7: be honest, but coming inside from the left as well
Speaker 7: into that space, kind of like Luna has in the past.
Speaker 7: So we just thought from an attacking standpoint, it suited
Speaker 7: those guys, and you know, everyone's bought in on the
Speaker 7: defensive side of the ball and it is willing to
Speaker 7: put in the work, and so you know, those guys
Speaker 7: are put in the work, and when we defend, it's
Speaker 7: a little more full for two and it's a little
Speaker 7: more like you're used to seeing it, where Lockey will
Speaker 7: be next to Forster defending against sort of their back
Speaker 7: line and Diogo will have to deal with their white
Speaker 7: guy in that role. But yeah, it's it's more from
Speaker 7: an attacking standpoint, getting both of those guys in positions
Speaker 7: where they feel comfortable on the ball.
Speaker 2: Then obviously you get a clean sheet.
Speaker 5: So i'd imagine you're happy with what happened with the
Speaker 5: And I know you defend as a team, okay, I've
Speaker 5: learned over the years. I get yelled at, like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I know it's not just the back four and the keeper,
Speaker 5: but Rath Cabral gets a clean sheet for his debut
Speaker 5: for you guys, and you guys stay clean on that
Speaker 5: side of the ball. So i'd imagine you were pleased
Speaker 5: with the defensive effort.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, you know, Rafa's composure and calmness on the
Speaker 7: ball and defensively, communications organization was all really good. The
Speaker 7: back line defended really well with a tough, tough environment,
Speaker 7: like I said, so you know, it was a bit
Speaker 7: physical at times, and I thought they did a good
Speaker 7: job of matching that physical intensity when it was required.
Speaker 7: So yeah, they played pretty well.
Speaker 5: So fullbacks, of course, Alex Catranas, who every time I
Speaker 5: watch him, you know, ultimately continues to become one of
Speaker 5: my favorite players and body on the other side. But
Speaker 5: I think it was three years ago, Kurt, when I
Speaker 5: had you on after the season and Andrew Brody had
Speaker 5: been named the RSL Defender of the Year. And I
Speaker 5: asked you if you were surprised, and you said absolutely not,
Speaker 5: and you gave a really eloquent, smart answer about the
Speaker 5: type of player that Brody is. And you guys elected
Speaker 5: to move on from Andrew Brody just a couple of
Speaker 5: days ago. He has landed on his feet. Sporting Case
Speaker 5: grabbed him homegrown player. It can only be, you know,
Speaker 5: tabbed as a successful story start to finish. But how
Speaker 5: tough was that decision to let go of a guy
Speaker 5: that I know a lot of people over there liked
Speaker 5: an awful lot.
Speaker 7: Yeah it is. And you know, nothing bad to say
Speaker 7: about about Brodie at all, and he was he is
Speaker 7: a great guy, a good a good egg in the
Speaker 7: locker room, someone who works hard and gives everything he's
Speaker 7: got every time he's out there. And that's what, you know,
Speaker 7: what got him where he is now and what got
Speaker 7: him on the field for us when he got on
Speaker 7: the field for us, and he pushed really hard. And
Speaker 7: I think it's really less about Brody and more credit
Speaker 7: to some of the guys we brought in in terms
Speaker 7: of their ability to.
Speaker 6: Push into some of those roles and positions.
Speaker 7: And you know, as we talked about it, we felt
Speaker 7: that Andrew may not play as much as as he
Speaker 7: had in the past, given given some of the performances
Speaker 7: some of the guys that are coming through. So you know,
Speaker 7: we wanted to try to find the best solution to
Speaker 7: help him land on his feet is as much as possible.
Speaker 7: And I don't know that it was super clear and
Speaker 7: smooth always, but I'm really really happy for him because
Speaker 7: I think he obviously deserves it, and I know he'll
Speaker 7: work hard and he'll do really well there. But yeah,
Speaker 7: sometimes it just comes to a point where you know
Speaker 7: the it's run its course with maybe one club and
Speaker 7: it's time to move on, to get a change of
Speaker 7: scenery and try something in a different place.
Speaker 5: I want to go back real quick before we talk
Speaker 5: about the match tomorrow. Then I'll set you loose with
Speaker 5: Elias not showing up and not electing to move to
Speaker 5: Salt Lake and play for RSL. And just in your experience,
Speaker 5: is that something you run into maybe more than you expected.
Speaker 5: And the reason I asked Kurt is the RSL players
Speaker 5: in the past have seemed to embrace our city in
Speaker 5: a way that a lot of the jazz players either
Speaker 5: never tried to. And I could give you a list
Speaker 5: of names of guys that had locked in that didn't
Speaker 5: want to move here, or players that have lived here
Speaker 5: for a few years and have decided like it's not
Speaker 5: for them. And I think for sports fans in our market,
Speaker 5: it's always been pretty refreshing. And I know that RSEL
Speaker 5: fans hate when I go back to like the two
Speaker 5: thousand and nine group, but.
Speaker 2: All those guys just embrace Star community.
Speaker 5: A lot of them could have played elsewhere, like Nikki
Speaker 5: and Kyle, And from my seat, I haven't seen a
Speaker 5: lot of this, you know, players not wanting to come
Speaker 5: here from a soccer standpoint, so this feels somewhat new
Speaker 5: to me. But I'm not in these conversations the way
Speaker 5: you are. Is this a challenge that you guys face,
Speaker 5: maybe more than most of us realize.
Speaker 7: I don't know that that's the case, to be honest.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's not something where you know, a player
Speaker 7: refusing to come to a club, whether it's been Harsel
Speaker 7: or any other places I've been, is really a big issue.
Speaker 7: Typically this is kind of the first time this is
Speaker 7: this has happened, and you know, despite doing the work
Speaker 7: on the front end and getting buying or at least
Speaker 7: feeling good about like everyone knowing what's going on to
Speaker 7: the extent that it's ever in the cards, like that's
Speaker 7: usually made clear early enough in the process that you
Speaker 7: don't get to this point. But that's that's just clearly
Speaker 7: not what happened here. So no, I mean, look, I
Speaker 7: don't as I'm talking to people, especially foreign foreign players,
Speaker 7: you know, RSL or Salt Lake City or Utah being
Speaker 7: a destination that they, you know, for whatever reason, may
Speaker 7: not want to come to doesn't doesn't really come up.
Speaker 6: I think when.
Speaker 7: People see see the mountains and see the community and
Speaker 7: see the facilities and see the fans, like you know,
Speaker 7: in a game. But there's rarely do I get anything
Speaker 7: but positive feedback from perspective players, I think, and sometimes
Speaker 7: these situations. What what plays into it is is if
Speaker 7: you've got a foreign player who's got an agent and
Speaker 7: neither of them is as familiar as they should be
Speaker 7: with the contract they signed and MLSH in particular, then
Speaker 7: then you get these situations where some confusion can develop
Speaker 7: and bad you know, bad advice and bad decisions are made.
Speaker 7: So I think I think it's.
Speaker 6: More to do with probably that.
Speaker 7: Than Salt Lake as a as a location, as a community,
Speaker 7: as a as a place, than anything A.
Speaker 5: All right, Kurt, before I set you loose, and I
Speaker 5: know you already know this, but I'm going to point
Speaker 5: it out. The mlssoccer dot Com Power Rankings in Pro
Speaker 5: Soccer for our domestic league RSL at seventeen, San Jose
Speaker 5: at eighteen.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 5: I know you've already read this. I mean, I know
Speaker 5: you already know this. I'm just reminding you.
Speaker 7: I don't read it until Trey reads it to me
Speaker 7: every day.
Speaker 5: You know what, I want Trey to read me the
Speaker 5: MLS Power Rankings before I go to sleep every night.
Speaker 2: I think that would be a wonderful bedtime story.
Speaker 5: So I know Trey has let you know that you
Speaker 5: guys are seventeen and San Jose is eighteen. Tongue in cheek, obviously,
Speaker 5: what do you know about San Jose? You know, Bruce
Speaker 5: Arena in charge. Obviously, he's a legend a guy that
Speaker 5: you know. I'm sure throughout the course of your MLS
Speaker 5: journey we've already talked about. You know, the fact that
Speaker 5: they have Chi Cho and a bunch of new players
Speaker 5: who I know nothing about. So what are you guys
Speaker 5: up against tomorrow, down against San Jose.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look like you said, it's you know,
Speaker 7: Bruce has come in and you know, he's had a
Speaker 7: ton of success everywhere he's been, you know, putting nov rosters,
Speaker 7: changing tactics, giving players sort of the freedom to express themselves,
Speaker 7: and managing managing them really well, managing high profile players
Speaker 7: really well. So do we know exactly what they're gonna
Speaker 7: look like. I mean, no, we don't, because I mean
Speaker 7: I don't know that they know exactly what they're gonna
Speaker 7: look like tomorrow or in six months. But it's gonna
Speaker 7: be a lot different from last year. There's there's a
Speaker 7: lot of different faces and and obviously they're gonna set
Speaker 7: up differently and play a style that's different than last year.
Speaker 7: They've got, you know, two strikers that are probably not
Speaker 7: used to playing with another striker of their sort of
Speaker 7: I don't know level, you know, at the same time,
Speaker 7: so it'll be interesting to see how how that kind
Speaker 7: of works together. They've got a lot of high price
Speaker 7: or high high cost attacking talent that they needed to
Speaker 7: squeeze into the field at the same time, and you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's our job to just execute our game plan
Speaker 7: and make you know, exploit the flaws and that and
Speaker 7: that idea. But you know, I think they're gonna come
Speaker 7: in with a different setup. You know, they might come
Speaker 7: with three in the back, they might come with four.
Speaker 7: Bruce is typically like, you know, a four forty three
Speaker 7: one four four two type of guy with maybe the setup,
Speaker 7: but he can easily play with three in the back
Speaker 7: and like a three four one two type of setup
Speaker 7: depending on how he deploys his white guys and his
Speaker 7: wing back. So it just depends on his preference on
Speaker 7: the day and how he feels he gets the best
Speaker 7: players in the field. But you know, how we deal
Speaker 7: with it is gonna is gonna be the same regardless.
Speaker 6: Kurt.
Speaker 5: You are the man I'll be pulling for tomorrow as always,
Speaker 5: so I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, thanks man.
Speaker 5: All right, Kurt Schmitt RSL opens up on my LS
Speaker 5: play coming up tomorrow against San Jose. Bruce Arena is
Speaker 5: in charge of San Jose now and they have Chicho Orongo.
Speaker 5: Joseph Martinez has been acquired as well, So those are
Speaker 5: big time strikers on paper. RSL hopefully can continue the
Speaker 5: road success they've had under Pablo. Our guy, Pobs good
Speaker 5: vibes guy, getting some points on the road. Kurt brought
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