i’ve enjoyed it, truly! super encouraging for year one

hahaha i mean you don’t hire someone and immediately start thinking of how to get out of the contract so i doubt that very much

figure out how to guarantee alan pulido’s health!!!

no. 6 is always super important for this team. they went down hard after losing ilie and failing to replace him. radoja has been good this year. but they need to have a plan B.

another high-level attacker this winter would be good too.

hopefully closer to being the best non-top-5 league in the world. gotta keep inching that way.

i don’t see it anytime soon with $500m expansion fees and all the infrastructure investment from teams. owners would have to agree to it. don’t see a world where they agree anytime soon

good character, really good interview. i genuinely believe he’ll be successful in portland but, if he’s not, might be tough to find a 3rd job here. but i will say portland absolutely were not the only MLS team who wanted him.

with the revs eliminated, the sporting director search will accelerate and im sure they want to wrap that up soon.

they have a good base. any team with carles gil is always gonna have a chance. but a potential attacking midfield group of borrero-gil-chancalay next year is tasty.

thanks for caring enough to ask a question!

round one has been better than i thought it would be. but im looking forward to the single-elimination games in the upcoming rounds. what i love in mls is that the better seed hosts these games rather than a pre-deetermined neutral field for the final. i hope that never ever changes.

i think the first big one was when i broke the brenden aaronson to rb salzburg transfer. i had broke news before that so people recognized my name a little as ok this is a real person, but that one was like oh wow okay this is someone to pay attention to.

how did i get that scoop? you think im gonna reveal my sources? cmon now! 😂

i try to do that as much as i can. what’s the point of getting to where you want to be without gratitude? particularly when i feel tired or feel like ah man i really wish there wasn’t a game on tonight that i have to watch cus i just wanna do nothing. like … this is nuts. i am so incredibly lucky. like, people have decided to let my ugly face on apple tv! that’s nuts! to steal a joke from jim jefferies, i have gone further than a man of my intellect or looks should ever have gone!

that’s extremely kind. thank you so much i really appreciate it. yeah it’s been fast. got lucky with the timing of MLS growing too. definitely a ton of work, i feel like i’m never actually off because of all the time i spend talking to sources and monitoring news, but that’s part of the game man.

thank you again!

arena

realistic is quarterfinals at least in 2026. disappointment if not. why can’t they make semis? but anything less than quarterfinals is a disappointment.

if richards progresses, that position will be fine. i see your point where there’s not an elite talent to look at for that position unlike several others (LW with pulisic, ST balogun, CAM reyna, DM adams, etc)

hahaha i absolutely love london but that’s not very compatible with being an MLS insider.

my lovely fiance is a small business owner near where we live so i’ll be in NJ for the long-term!

wayyyyyy too early to guess names. i said somewhere above that they pushed real hard for chucky lozano and they truly believe if he didn’t move to PSV on deadline day, they would have signed him in january. they do have interest in alvaro morata, whether or not it’s likely is another thing. but think that kind of range. those are big swings.

bou is out of contract. seems like he’s gone but man if he would accept a max-TAM deal, i think honestly like every team should be offering him that.

vrioni has been a disaster. gotta transfer him out.

chancalay would be a DP if they pick up his option. id be shocked if they don’t, he’s so good. an attack with borrero-gil-chancalay and a new DP forward could be AWESOME

the actual play on the field!!! i don’t care a ton about the traditional media coverage – i do not blame shows like PTI or around the horn for not covering it. you can’t cover anything. what do we gain by people who don’t watch talking about the game for 2 mins cus they feel like they have to?

but a lot of the convo is dominated by messi, or who’s next, or what’s next, or how to fix this, or how to change rules. i’m super excited for the next rounds of the playoffs here. a lot of fun teams and great storylines (cincy v philly, maybe lafc v seattle, etc). this is what we’ve been grinding for eight months or whatever for. this is what all the time spent in may watching a random, bad wednesday night game is for!

wikipedia for rumors? lmao literally never. well i’ll just speak for myself. and i’d highly recommend to anyone reading this to not use wikipedia for rumors.

and while we’re here to actually use some media literacy to determine whether the random twitter rumor you see is real or not.

i use transfermarkt and fbref for stats more than wiki but wiki helps with macro stuff too (and links out to a lot of stuff so that’s helpful)

on the horizon i think griezmann and giroud are coming. i do think (hope?) neymar will too. will there be a time where the USMNT stars come here earlier than maybe expected like bradley/altidore/dempsey did? who knows.

tough to compete with saudi money so if a player is moving just for money, they’re gonig to saudi 100%. but lifestyle is here. messi helped a lot too (OBVIOUSLY)