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Welcome to the SCUF Podcast, we talk about U.S. soccer. Welcome to the SCUF Podcast, we're back, man, it's Labor Day and we are laborin' once again, some Monday review, I got myself here with Mr. Sanjay, she was out there Kumar, Sanjay Hadoor. I'm doing good, good to be with you, eventful weekend and we got some more news this morning from the man with the plan, so excited to get into it, but firstly let's wish a happy birthday to the boss man Adam Bells. The only thing I remember about Bells birthday is him and Waky had the same birthday, so Waky if you out there have birthday to you as well, but you know America, what's more American than working on Labor Day, you know what I'm saying? That really distills it all down to the nitty gritty, to our ethos and pathos if you want to really learn what America's about, so here we are man, and we got some great, the reason why we had to be here, we couldn't skip this week, because we got some, we got some, there's news all around, let's start with the great, let's start with the great news, over in Strasbourg, France, they played, they played toa this weekend or choice, I don't know how you pronounce it, but anyway, they played them and Mr. G Elvani Raiders scored himself a gold in the Sanjay. The renaissance is happening, knock on wood, knock on every piece of wood in sight. Brother, you need to hug a tree. Now honestly, I thought he was better last week, but he gets the goal this week, and he had a dangerous moment before the goal as well with his left foot in the box, and I thought, ah, there goes his chance, he's probably going to come out soon, but no, he gets good work to get the shot off quickly with his left, it's deflected, but you know, you make your own luck, he's like kind of running around, he's getting there, we know what he does in the ball, but that for me is what I'm intrigued by. He's doing some stuff, his manager is calling him out. Incessantly, if you watch the game, all you hear is just, Gio, Gio, Gio, I thought it was one of those things you think you're tripping, and then I saw Marcus tweeted it and I was like, all right, yes, not just me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right. And I think we got some quotes from the game, after the game, from the manager, where he was basically saying, you know, Gio, when you're playing this 4-2-3-1, Gio's at the middle of it, you know, he got some defensive responsibility, we know we can do on the ball, but we want to get that out of him. So that's why he's hollering at the man, that's why he's hollering at him. And you know, like you said, Sanjay, I was much more impressed with last week's performance in this week's, but he got the goal. And you know, that moment that you alluded to before the goal, you know, it was a nice piece of work, kind of receives a ball, left side of the box, is marked and chops it from his right foot over to his left and gets a nice little snapshot off that was saved, but you know, it is what it is. But yeah, there's not much as far as creation. Yeah, he was involved in Strasbourg second goal as well, whether, you know, I'm actually kind of, so they're doing the thing on like the left side of the pitch. Somebody's played into the cutback zone. So my plays a cutback, cutback comes a geo and geo swings at it with his left foot. Oh, yeah, he whiffed. He whiffed. Right. And the result of that of the whiff or the scuff or whatever you want to call it is basically a perfect square ball to his teammate who then gets a shot, it gets a shot off. It is saved. And then the ball comes right back to him and he scores. And what you look, if he didn't know any better, you might think that's a pass. Well, we'll count it as a hockey assist. We'll count it. Well, we'll count it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I count it as one hockey assist. Yeah, so look, I'm enjoying watching Strasbourg play. Nannasi that is on the same side with geo, like their winger over there. The geo kind of combines with a lot. He's a good player. The dude on the other side, I think he might be like Moroccan, maybe Algerian or something. He's a live wire as well. They got some, they got some nice attackers. I've enjoyed watching this team. They got some, they got some talent. And they seem to definitely have an understanding how to play together on the pitch for sure. That that's like very obvious. And so I'm enjoying watching geo play with Strasbourg. And if they like, I need to see, I need, I do need to see more though. I do need to see more. But, but I'm being patient. Hopefully, I mean, because look, he's trying to figure out how to play with this, with this new body and all this different stuff. As much as we're trying to figure out how to assess his performances with this new body and this, I guess, diminished athleticism. I don't want to be negative about it. But like, he has not had a run of games kind of since all this thing, all these things have happened to him, you know? And so I am, I'm willing to give him some time. And, you know, all soccer players need confidence. I mean, or whatever, like, you know, Kevin gets going on his run. It took him, you know, and now he's officially rolling. But it took him a little bit to get those starts, get his sea legs under him and really start a certain himself on this pitch. And I mean, that's, and this is to say nothing from geo was like moving to a new country, getting acclimated to new teammates, et cetera, et cetera. transition time in his life. He's expecting a kid, you know, like a lot, a lot going on for him. And we're happy for him. We're happy for him. All that stuff. But yes, we're happy for him. He is getting, he's, he has a place that believes in him and it seems and he is getting coached and he has a, he's getting coached up. He has a kind of crazy, it's kind of crazy, right? How good this fit is like, like, again, we're holding our breath. But yeah, they're enjoyable enough to watch. We're like, we're like, my alarm went off on Sunday morning. I was ready to sleep in. I went to an edge here in concert and I got home late, uh, maybe everywhere. I only go to MetLife for soccer events now and an edge here. And I'm, I'm damn sure not going for jazz games. Um, I'm in love with the shape of you. Yeah. Oh, man. Let's go. I would have been in there kind of, kind of grooving a little bit. So, so yeah, my alarm went off and, you know, it would have been easy to just tap out, sleep in. Well, I scouted. But, you know, the way Strasbourg plays did make me want to, like, it's not like we're waking up to watch a relegation scrapper, you know what I mean? Like we've seen plenty of our guys play on those kind of clubs. But now I'm enjoying watching it. Hopefully it keeps going. Geo's got confidence. Uh, you know, some might say arrogance to him. And that reminds us of, well, well, hold on, hold on, hold on, but before you go forward, and that was, that was a nice segue. I'm going to give that to you. I'm sorry I had to step on it. But before you go forward real quick, because I'm going to help some people out. Um, people, Geo is over in France, right? Playing, playing in league on. And therefore, people need to be informed how to get legal on TV. I'm going to tell you the cheapest way. I'm going to tell you the cheapest way. I've, I've, I've had been in since I've become a soccer fan because, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't poo poo to French league. I respect it greatly. Okay. I respect. I've always been a French league league. Uh, make, went back when I was Uber Eats, McDonald's. You know what I'm saying? I'm a respecter. I'm a respecter. So this is, this is what you do because I feel like people are going to be inclined. They didn't do it for a flow by looking for whatever reason. They didn't do it for tenant test men, but not a georane is over there. I feel like people are going to be inclined to maybe fork up that money for a being subscription. First of all, misconception number one, because I saw Jonathan Tanna wall talk about this. He tweeted, he was like, Oh, you, you'd be forgiven for not watching georana because of their TV deal in the United States. But, all right. This is the simplest, most straightforward, streaming package that you can, that you can get for a soccer league in the United States. You know what I'm saying? If you get peacock, you're not getting out of Premier League games. You're not, you need a, you need a cable subscription along with peacock. If you get being sports, you get, you get an auto league league on game. So let me tell you how to do this sling TV. Okay. They got a BN package, $5.99 a month. Back when I, back when they had La Liga, it used to be $10 a month. This is the most value for money in the modern economy you're going to get. This is, this is somebody losing some of their offerings and giving you a discount on it. So let me tell you, person, if you are inclined to get some BN sports sling, the BN package, $6 a month, $6 a month. You can't beat it. That's cheaper than peacock. I pay for all these things. That's cheaper than Paramount Plus by, by like, you know, 50 percent, I want to say, that's cheaper than, what are the other streamers? Maybe not cheaper than Fandango, but just so you all know, man, just a cheaper than ESPN Plus as well. So just so you all know, man, $6, $6. All right. Hey, Gio, 10 man, 10 way, pardon the head, McKenzie still there for a bit, slow for now. If you guys release one of Dunjie. I got to say, a lot of people, when I tell them, I'm a soccer journalist, they ask you right away who your club is. I gave up on Everdon a while ago, because I couldn't just, between the jets and then I couldn't do it, man. I couldn't do it. I told a lot of our scuffed friends this, but yeah, I'm kind of relieved that the Everdon, these are not going to Everdon in hindsight. Like, I was, you know, it's confirmation bias for telling ourselves this would be cool. Now that it's not happening, I don't mind it. No shade, Everdon are not too much shade, because they got a nice result, right? This weekend, but no shade, no shade at all, but maybe some shade. Well, when I was revealed, I would be fully ready to shade Everdon, because I don't have any, I don't have any stock. I don't like Jordan Pickford anyway, et cetera. Yes, speaking of the, of the Prem, how's that for a segue? Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Someone who will be headed to Manchester City eventually, who knows if I'll end up playing for them, hopefully he will. But he has the confidence. I don't, I wouldn't call it arrogance at this point. I don't think it's fair. I think it's, it's charisma, really. Gio, if you want to, if you want to say there's arrogance, that's one thing, but I think cabinet is confidence and charisma and, yeah, like, like, I don't think. So we'll give, well, first off, we'll talk about his performance this weekend. Another goal does really well. I mean, I'm sure everyone's seen it, you know, does really well to stay with the play and follow what's up. Who would they play? Montreal. Montreal, yeah, okay. Yeah. So he does really well to put them up. I think it was a second goal, right? I think so, but it was, I mean, regardless of it was second, first, whatever. You might say this is kind of like a gimme or something like that. I think it was a low ski got in behind the Montreal defense. It kind of became like a one-on-one with the keeper. Yeah, I mean, it was definitely one-on-one with the keeper. He couldn't, he couldn't dribble the keeper. I think, and then the ball kind of squirted out, once the keeper got a touch to it, and there's Cav and Johnny on a spot. But he actually, he smoked this ball, you know, like it was, it was a gift of an opportunity for him, for the ball to just squirt out and for him to, first of all, he made the run, he hustled to get there. He made his own luck kind of. He celebrated, right? Yeah. But when he got there, he smoked the ball, and that was nice to see, you know, all the other stuff is probably not a repeatable process or like anything skill related necessarily, but the actual shot on goal, that's something, you know, just to have that ball striking ability. I mean, which we know, we know he possesses it, but it's like every time you see it, you want to see repeatable processes, you know, when it comes to rating players, you want to see him do it over and over again and really know that they possess these skills and see them put those skills into play. So yeah. Yeah, he placed it well, he placed it really well. But there was a clip that went, I guess you could say viral about, you know, him talking about how he could have come off the bench in the Belgium game. And he didn't say like, he didn't say like, if I was there, I would have come in and done something. You know what I mean? Like he was, it came from an area of confidence like, damn, I wish I was there. I could kind of thing. Right. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. So that's that's a important, that's an important distinction. Yeah. Where it's like, now these dudes is bumps. They're not kind of a Sullivan. They needed whatever. Yeah, they needed me. You know what I'm saying? So he, it sounds like, and this was on Alexi Lawless State of the Union. I want to say, yeah, it's a good, good interview. You guys should listen to it overall. And you'll, ah, hold on, sorry. No, no, no free ads, man. Alexi got to come out pocket for that, man. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. But, uh, it, it, like I said, important distinction. It was not these dudes are bumps. They, they really needed a Kevin Sullivan. And you saw what they needed a Kevin Sullivan. It was just like, if I had that opportunity, I think I could have got something done out there. But anyway, so what, what happened in the, in the fallout that we learned this morning? Yeah. So Mauricio Patruchino was on a call with the small group of reporters. And, uh, this is from Paul Tenerio's piece on it. Um, while the US coach did not mention Kevin Sullivan's name, Patruchino's response felt pointed toward a recent interview that Kevin gave that we just referenced. Um, Pat said, we are very happy to have all these potential good players being young with the possibility to perform and to play. Only we need to be careful now. We need to be careful because when you are young, of course, you need to be confident. You need to have the trust in yourself and believe that you can perform and you can do well. But I think there is a limit. And he goes on to say, you play well, you're 17, 16, 18 and you play well and people start to talk like you, you're a LAMSC or you're a big star in the world. You do a few good things. If you have to, like, you got the gist of it. Um, he says, you know, we want players, you know, playing, improving every day, being humble, being careful when they talk in the media. Um, he said that explicitly. And yeah, so I mean, that's, you know, he said they need to be respectful. So you get the point. He's saying like, it's one thing if you're messy. Um, you can talk with a certain arrogance, but even messy, never are you going to hear him talking in this way. So I get where he's coming from. Um, but for us, messy is a very introverted person. I wouldn't compare him to Kevin Sullivan. Uh, Kevin, Kevin Sullivan has the charisma that America is craving in a superstar and unfairly criticizes Christian policy for for lacking when he's injured or not playing well. It's unfair to him in my opinion. But yeah, he's not, um, we've talked about it on here. Let like, Kevin has that, that swagger to him. Um, so it sounds like we are going to see him in this, in this window, poch also talking to my young players on this call said, Philadelphia has good young players, good kids that maybe we will call a few of New York, yes, Orlando, national. I can keep going now. So that, and that quote is courtesy of a friend of the pod, Jonathan Tanowald, who you just mentioned, but, uh, but, but yeah, I mean, what do you think about this, Vince? Um, I, I guess a part of me is happy that he's kind of consistent as far as being careful what you say in the media kind of thing because, you know, he came, came down on Tim Wayah for, uh, talking about, uh, for, he came down Tim Wayah for talking about taking prices at the World Cup, also coming down on Kevin Sullivan for, I guess, projecting confidence, uh, when he shouldn't be, um, when he has not established himself on the world stage yet, all this is understood, but, uh, I guess, mainly, I'm just like, such a old ass of you, you know, I'm saying like, like, I don't want to, now, poch, poch is old school, but I don't think this is like something, like, Kevin's going to get into camp. They're going to get all on great. It's going to be fine. I don't think it's a thing, either it would have been nice to maybe hear how you said it, but this wasn't like an official press conference kind of thing, just like a round table, I guess, a little, a little precursor to, but before he puts out the, um, the roster for this, for this next and come a window, but, uh, uh, uh, I'm thinking like, why do you even have to say this at all, but, but whatever, man, well, whatever, I'm not, I'm not getting worked up about any of this stuff. It just is what it is, I guess, um, ultimately, but, but it's, he's old school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's the thing, you just got to accept that and, and, and just move on, you know what I'm saying? Because like, the thing that trumps all this, all this stuff that I might not like that he says or whatever is like, you know, the scenes from the World Cup, G.O. Rainer scores the goal the way he runs over and celebrates with the team and like, you know what I'm saying? That's a real, the way he galvanized his team once they really started to, I mean, specifically in the World Cup when they really started to, um, take the form and the shape that he wanted to have and we really saw his imprint on the team or whatever, like because, I mean, even in the pre-World Cup, friendly, we have work to do, right? I mean, I remember calling out some of our counter-pressing against like Senegal, whatever, and then when the World Cup comes out, we're flying, we're counter-pressing teams to, to hell, like as soon as we lose the ball, all the gym type of stuff, and you see how the team reacts to the barbecue king, the man with the plan, Mariso Paschino. So, uh, overall, that cancels out any of this other stuff that I kind of deemed silly that he says, so it just is what it is. Yeah, I think, Kevin, I think it's just, you know, an early message to come and put your head down and work. I think those guys are going to do that anyway. They're going to be thrilled to be in that environment. Um, you know, a lot of them together, but it's, it's, they know why they're there. And yeah, Pasch, well, the players love Pasch, so, um, it's going to be fine. It's like, there is going to be a lot of attention, though, on, on, on Kevin. The American sports media machine, already, you know, he's on the radar and he hasn't been capped yet. And he's going to turn, if he's called up, he's going to turn 17 during this camp. So, so like, there's going to be, you know, and, and we're expecting a debut. Like, this is the, this could be the cabin camp, but obviously no one's bigger than the team. I think that that's where Pasch is coming from, but, uh, I kind of wonder, I wonder if, like, if he starts becoming a regular on the national team and he starts cooking, I like Christian, Policic way back when, um, if, like, it's really going to break into the mainstream, because I remember, I remember I became aware of Christian, Policic, why he was going crazy and qualifying. I didn't know what we were doing. I, I wasn't a fan then. I didn't, I didn't know what the U.S. Minnesota team was doing. All I saw was a lot of football accounts that I followed at the time, tweeting out, Policic and all caps, you know, I'm saying constantly. It was like a constant thing. I'm like, Rose, man, must be going crazy. I didn't, I didn't look at any of it up, but I feel like maybe Kevin getting called in and going crazy for the national team, um, off the back of the World Cup, where we might have more eyes on ourselves than, uh, than usual. Maybe that really, maybe that really breaks, man, because, because he's in MLS too, right? That's a different. Yeah. Yeah. Fair, fair. Yeah. All this stuff could combine and, and, and make something magical for sure. So, it remains to be seen, but, but shut up, Kevin. I don't know if you, I don't think you mentioned it, Sanjay, but he hit the, uh, what, he hit the LeBron talk talk, sadly. Yeah, yeah, that, you know, it just speaks to the, the prisoner, right? He's talking about lobbying, uh, lobbying LeBrongan, Brown to come to a game, following back on Instagram, maybe, like, like, I, I loved it. So, like, America's going to eat this up. So, um, speaking of which, so, so we had, uh, Brown, uh, Brown was in the news over the weekend, because he unveiled on social media partnership with Polymarket. So, I just want to take a second here to thank our patrons. We're always grateful for your support. 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Um, again, this is not, this, this is not a lot of people are talking about, you know, sports being rigged and stuff after what happened in the Michigan game this weekend. I don't know if that anything to do with gambling and prediction markets, but that was crazy. But, um, yeah, I just wanted to talk about it because it's, um, it, it really became, it's gotten out of control ever since, um, it was legalized in the, the effort came from my state, you jersey. Um, and now it's everywhere and it's, um, it, you, you can't win at the end of the day. The book always wins. Uh, if you're really good at it, they're, they're gonna squeeze you out. That's how it's set up. It's designed to squeeze people. There's a huge social cost. That's, that's so crazy. It's crazy. If you two get at it, they're gonna shut you down and you're gonna have to figure out a whole bunch of, uh, a certain Rick and Merrill to get your bets in anyway. So, you know, you know, the game stacked against you. Also, just, uh, for me, like if you saw the scuff DMs, pre-World Cup, uh, Kalshi, et cetera, was, was, was beating, beating our door down, brother. And, uh, we decided to take none of that just because I mean, look, uh, yeah, I don't necessarily believe it. I'm, I'm not, I'm not a gambler. I've, uh, I'm, I'm not. And it's not the, it's not to go against anybody. I like to place a little friendly wager here and there, uh, but I have seen some lives run to it, et cetera. And I think it's just better ways to make you money. But, but, yeah, once again, we're, we're sitting from a privileged position. If we did not have the, the great 2000 or so patrons that we do, uh, maybe we have to make some business. Yeah, there's a, yeah, to be clear, this is not a dig it. Any, anyone else in this space or in sports media who, who does take, correct, correct, you know, advertising, revenue from, from those companies, but, um, just, just be, be wary of what you're getting yourself into. Yeah. Um, before, before you do so, I guess would be the, would be the message here. We'll see what happens with prediction markets, but, but it's out of control now in our country, um, the way it's, uh, I, I have some, uh, experiences as a teacher and I've learned how, um, it's being socialized with kids younger and younger and it's, it's travel again. I, I, I don't bet, often, um, like you just said here and there, a future thing for the worst was this might have been the last time I bet. I put money on, uh, beating it a season. These are, these are kind of bets I make like highsman, future champion, whatever, for dormant to win the league when Holland was there, uh, remember the last day when they blew it. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but, but, but, here in it would have been a hero, man. Maybe like six goal contributions in that, in that, uh, in that Ruck Runda to lead them boys to the, you know, to the position that they were in, but yeah, truly blew it. Um, so anyway, let's, let's transition to a man that, I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty certain it's never made any bets in his life. This is a good, disciplined young man, Missy Eunice Musa over in, uh, over at midline Italy. Once again, starting and going 90 again for midline as they draw one one against UV, um, they, they played, I don't know about the eight, the fully eight team, Christian policy is still not, uh, back and playing yet. I mean, he was on the bench, but I mean, he's just on the bench. I think for ornament like, uh, like a decoration or something like that. Yeah, we get, we get an Emory and quote, I'll find it. You keep going. He, um, but we got the A midfield is the point I wanted to make. Uh, uh, Madritch on the pitch, Robbyo also on the pitch and Eunice Musa was able to remain on the pitch, even with, um, Robby on the pitch. Somebody who you would think maybe would, would take Eunice's spot in that double pivot next to next, uh, um, Madritch, but no, no, that's not, that's not the case. Eunice goes, he played, he plays against UV and probably had his worst, worst match. I, I think you would expect that based on the first two opponents, they played and then, you know, you go play, uh, Juventus, he, uh, yeah, it was just a, it was just a lot of give and take. There were a lot of, uh, silly. There was sloppy, there was sloppiness. No, sloppy. That's what I'll say. Um, there was some sloppiness, some giveaways, some stuff, some decisions that maybe he should have made quicker, et cetera, but also you saw, you saw some Eunice Musa stuff as well. Uh, you know, received, received the ball deep in his own half, made the, made the tight Eunice Musa turn, carried it 50 yards of the pitch. Now that, now that only happened, it won't, only happened once. Most of the rest of the match was just him kind of keeping possession. A few backpast is here and there and also settle in possession in, um, in some, sometimes chaotic situations. So it was a give and take, but you know what? I will take that performance against Juventus. He, we all know he has some growing to do. Um, but once again, similar to Geo, it seems like he has the back end of a manager and the belief to where he's gonna, he's gonna get coached up and he's gonna be able to progress. And this is, this is what we need to see. And, and once again, I always got to mention this when Eunice Musa, you see some of the vintage Eunice Musa touches and turns and drives up the pitch that we became accustomed to, you know, seeing them go crazy against Mexico, El Salvador, etc, etc. This has not always been the case in his professional minutes. And now, I mean, for, for this, in these first three matches from Milan, we're at least once a match. We're seeing, we're seeing Vincent's Eunice Musa. So as he gets more and more comfortable, gets more minutes in the center of the park, hopefully we see more and more and more of this. And, um, we can really see him start to maybe take that step to become who maybe we thought he could become back in 2022. Yeah, the, the best part again is that Emmerim doesn't take him out, right? Like, like, there's, there's waves of subs and, and he doesn't come out of the game, cover a ton of ground. Um, there was definitely nerve-y moments, like, just to start the game, he has a past picked off, then he blasts the ball to the center back. Yeah, he's a terrible start to the game. Into a fire. And, bro, second, then he kind of settled down in the second half again. Uh, like, there's some, like, he had to give away around the 54th minute that led to conscious outhitting the post in the other end. That, that could have been bad. Yeah. Um, and then, yeah, end of the game, he has like a good defensive header in the 81st minute to cut out across. And, you know, everyone's like, yeah, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it was a mixed bag, but like, again, a mixed bag for him is still like, like, like, he survived. He stayed in the game. So, good signs. Uh, Emmerim did stay, you know, uh, regarding Christian, he's back from an injury. I'm managing him. So, um, yeah, that, that's that. We'll talk about the roster on the roster episode, but, uh, not expecting to see him. But, um, yeah, Eunice, this is, this is good. Hopefully he comes in and, uh, he gets a few starts. Um, yeah. All right. And let's transition to another white, to another attacker who's starting his professional career off at Dortmund. Matisse, Matisse Albert, he got a start in the poll call against, uh, hold on, let me think, it's something Hamburg. It's, it's obviously not, you know, Hamburg. It's, uh, fifth division club in Hamburg that, uh, Dortmund was playing against. Matisse got the start. Looked alright? Yeah, it's tough to read into, but by the way, first off, uh, this game was in Hamburg, right? Because I was like, you know, the opponent, like, you can't learn anything about him on Fatmob. Right. So, I was like, all right. They, they must be pretty down there, but like, it's, it's just crazy seeing a pitch like that for fifth division club. If it was in, I think it was in Hamburg, right? Uh, yeah, it was in Hamburg. H-E-B-C Hamburg is the club's name. There you go. So, yeah. Matisse positive performance, you know, enterprising. Um, easy win for Dortmund, but, uh, we got some good comments from Niko Kovac afterwards. He said, I told Matisse in person today that I was very, very pleased with his performance. He did exactly what I wanted him to do. He's a one-on-one player. Someone who goes forward and tries to tie the opposition in one-on-one or one-on-two situations. Of course, there are things he can improve on, but he's a young man. He's still developing. There's only good and bad, not young and old. I said that a few times. If he carries on like this, he'll get plenty of playing time this season. What I saw on Tuesday, he justifies him staying in the squad and hoping for more playing time. So, that's encouraging. Obviously, um, Dortmund, they did have an injury recently. Uh, the Greek guy who's named my camp pronounce slash forget right now. Uh, it's a, it's a, it's a Greek winger that they had just bought. Yeah. Yeah. You see all I think, right? So, yeah. Path to more minutes from Matisse also, and we'll go into more death throughout this in the roster episode, but um, they have a lot of fixtures coming up on the other side of the break. Like the congestion is crazy. They have like something like nine games in a month. It's like game Saturday, game Wednesday, game Saturday, game Tuesday, game Saturday, game Tuesday, game Saturday, game Wednesday, like, like the games come thick and fast. So, it's an interesting one where it's like, in terms of calling him up, do you bring him in because hope probably play anyway when he goes back because there's so many games, or do you just leave him there and let him bake? You know what I mean? I don't know if you get a take on this. What do you think? So, with the information that we got after Mr. Covatch's comments that in, in Dortmund's very next game, I think they played, they played Hoffenheim. I want to say this weekend. Oh, yeah, you in play, right? Yeah, where Matisse was a DNP. I think I would lean towards maybe leaving him. You know, like, give him that extra time. Like, he hasn't, he hasn't like broken in, broken in yet. So, give him that extra time to stay with the club, really embed within that team, especially when you, I guess, have a little bit more opportunity when the international's are gone. They're going to be gone for a long time. And yeah, maybe let him just get ready for that stretch, and so that he's fully ready to go firing and hopefully get some minutes and make an impact for Dortmund against teams that are not full of German sausage makers. Yeah, yeah, I'm with it. I'm with it. We'll be keeping an eye on him. More good news in Europe from this week, this weekend. Rico with the goal that gave PSV an early lead against Syaxx, and they go on to win it, 3-1. I don't know if it's an easy header, but, you know, he did his job there. I thought he was decent overall. So, do you know a solid two? It's funny seeing, so, do you know, actually have to do defending in this league, or like, play against a team that can kind of defend. Like, he had, like, some stoppage time. It's like, it's in like, goal recently where, like, he's picking up the ball, ran through the team at the end of the game. Yeah, he just ran through an entire D-fizz, like, he's married Donna. Yeah, when they play, you know, his old club, and you feel a different intensity in the stadium and the way the game goes. So, yeah, good to see them. Yeah, this was, it was funny. We went, when we were in Amsterdam, the scuff podcast, in case I don't know listeners, we have been taking the trip once a year, over the year, up to watch some Americans abruptly. This time, we went to Germany and the Netherlands. We got to watch PSV match. We got to watch a globbock match, a lever queues in first cold match as well. When we were in Amsterdam, hanging out, we went to an Algerian place to grab some lunch. Excellent food, fresh food, you know, sense that you got the cool, cool green beans, the chicken, etc. Just, yeah, they essentially like made bowls for everybody. The man bells picked up and took back to Vondel Park. Um, we were, we were kind of telling them what we do or whatever. And he was a big football fan in the Algerian dude with the work there. And then we started talking about Serginio. It just tells you about the IX PSV robbery. He basically, he basically hated to do it. He was like, is it a trader? He's a trader. He came up with us, came up through Iax and he's going over to PSV, whatever. Like he had no time. He did not want to talk to, talk about Serginio does. We, we, we instantly shifted the conversation over to, I think, uh, shoot, what's my, what's my boy at Byron, the French dude, the attacker? Crystal Palace, former Crystal Palace man. Uh, I know you're sorry. Damn, Alisa, Alisa, Alisa, Alisa is like half Algerian, I think. And he was just so proud of him. So then he, he quickly been Serginio does. He was like, you know what? You know who's a great player. And he's Algerian too, Michael, Alisa. So, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, so it was, it was fun. Like just to, just to give you all a little bit of a look into, I mean, of course, we all know that rivalry is something the two biggest clubs in the Amsterdam. I mean, not an Amsterdam in the Netherlands. But, um, yeah, they don't play about that. And PSV was able to come in there. I XS kind of fell in on pretty, pretty hard. This isn't your dad's I X. Yeah. No, no, to shame, not at all. So it is what it is. Shout out PSV. More, uh, good news. And, and, and just real quick, Champions League is about to start up and we will see them, you know, we'll be more typed in with PSV going forward as it's Champions League really starts to get underway, of course. We will tap in for them, but not Celtic. Quit Celtic. You, you tapped out for this year, right? On, on this land in Minalo's playing, then, then maybe we'll tap in for, for example, not watch Celtic Mother Wilbur. It's a wrap. Sorry, fellas. More good news in, in Europe this weekend. Um, some guys back in the starting lineup where they, uh, usually belong. Uh, Tyler Adams went 76 minutes and it's you two draw a new castle. Um, he was good. They can see an equalizer at the very end after he went off, but he was good, right? Vince, what do you say? Um, I, I don't think he was good. To be honest with you. Um, I, I really don't like he, he did some Tyler Adams things. Um, he has some nice tackles in midfield or whatever on the ball. I mean, I, I guess he was good for Tyler Adams. I don't know. I don't like, I've watched a lot of Tyler Adams for Bournemouth. I think this is one of his worser performances to be honest with you. And I don't know if you saw Newcastle's first goal, but Harvey Barnes, uh, Tyler ended up out wide garden Harvey Barnes in a transition moment and Harvey Harvey Barnes, you know, similar to like Looney Toans when like you see the, uh, Tweety Bird or whatever and the Tweety Bird turns into like a, a Cornish hen, like in the, in the Predator's eyes, you know, I'm saying. That's, that's what, that's what Harvey Barnes saw. He saw nothing, but, you know, I'm saying just a Thanksgiving day Turkey. He licked his lips. He took Tyler Adams on from the left wing, chopped inside, completely lost Tyler after I, from the chop, um, and, and, and curl one into the far post, just completely disregarded the man, discarded him, and, uh, scored a banger on him. So, thought some prayers of Tyler Adams. I watched the ton this weekend. This is one of a few games I didn't, and I entrusted him to you, and I learned how to trust, but verify when it comes to Tyler Adams commentary with you and Bills next time I got a, before I let you guys have him. I got a double check, because I saw some prayers online, and I was ready to, you know, he's starting again. Oh, it looks, um, that's wrong with this, but, yeah, and, and, and this is not like just me being like, idealistic, like he doesn't play defensive midfield in the way I like defensive midfield be played. I just don't think he was that great, um, playing the way Tyler Adams plays. Like I've, I've seen much better Tyler Adams performances. So, okay, fair. Yeah, I mean, there's a high standard for him to be clear, right? We gonna keep a high brother, you know what I'm saying? We gonna keep a high. Fair, fair. No, we have to, uh, for the way you play as the position, he's gonna be older, right? At the next World Cup. So, I gotta hold him to that high, high standard, because there's guys coming for a spot. Um, Alex Freeman, uh, when 90 in a, pretty too lost, various Deportivo or Coruña, um, I thought he was pretty solid. Like, I don't really fault him for, like, like, he was at the scene of the crime for a couple goals, but I don't, like, I'm not knocking him for it. Like, the first one, it's someone else's, someone else should have been tracking that wrong. Like, the guy's making a run, you know, in between him and center back, I think it was. And, uh, Alex just kind of ends up on the guy, but it wasn't his run to track initially, and maybe he could have been tighter, but that's not on him. And then later on, um, he finishes the game at center back. Yeah. Um, which is interesting. Uh, and I thought he, you know, so he had to defend a few guys in, in space, um, and there's one where it's like, like a 1v1, but he cuts the angle pretty well. Well, like, I think it closes off the angle pretty well, and I thought the keeper should have done better. So, so that's probably true, but it's, it's, uh, a Vila Riyadh attack breaks down. Transition moment for deep, deep or Tivo, a la Coruña, um, Pierre Emmer, Corbamiang running in behind. It's him versus Alex Freeman. Um, and basically, he's on Abbasip, and Abbas able to keep him there as he's kind of carrying the ball into the box and slides it with his right foot into the goal. You know, you're probably right, though, as far as the entire far part of the goal was taken away from Abba as, because, because, this is all he can do, right? Well, first of all, also, it was like a terrible giveaway. Like, homie played it back to, played it back inside, and, and, you know, the, the Vila Riyadh player receiving the ball just stood there, and, and, and, and, and they're going the other way. And Freeman's, you know, recovering, like, like, he had a few good recoveries. He had a nice starting challenge earlier. It looked like I'm not knocking him for this goal. I thought overall, he was pretty good. Now, hold on, hold on though, because he was out of scene in the crowd for all three Deportivo goals. And the second goal is probably the one I give him the most blame on because it's like there is an attacker's Deportivo number nine standing in between Alex Freeman and some other player. But basically, and, and he's in a situation where his hips are kind of face towards the attack, the attacker that's in the space. And, but he has his head, kind of focus on the ball. This is somebody he should have been alert to. So basically, that, that player gets played in to goal. And then he basically, I think he takes a first time shot with like his left foot from a tight angle and kind of roofs it. I think Alex should have been more on his toes to be able to get there and not allow Deportivo number nine to get that shot off. Essentially, for me, this was a second goal. Yeah, yeah, okay. It was a second goal. Yeah, I basically, it's like, okay, all three of these situations, he was at the scene of the crime. And when I talk about business handling, it's a thing. It don't always got to be your business necessarily. Sometimes, I mean, you know, you know how defending is, you come over, you make a heroic play and then you get up and you get the scream at everybody. You know, I'm saying for being out of position or whatever, that's, that's advanced business handling. You know what I'm saying? It is like, you snuff, you see the play early, you get there, regardless of who, whose responsibility it was or whatever and you snuff it out. Now, of course, Alex Freeman, very young in his football and journey. So I'm not, I'm not saying this to knock him, but I would have liked to see some of these plays being handled. Oh, this is a keeper's fall too. Come on now. Brother, but, but how do you get the opportunity to shoot? Yeah, but you got, you cannot get beat near a post like that. I mean, bro, how did he get the opportunity to shoot the ball? I don't know how to say what you're saying about the keeper, but the shot, the shot shouldn't have been what it was. I don't think he's, he's not a business handler. I'm talking about advanced business handler. You know what I'm saying? For me to, for me I see what you're saying here, like he should not be for you to be a six-sigma business handler. You got to, you got to snuff some of these things though. He's, I see what you're saying on this play. Like, there is, like, he should have kind of stated where he was or even moved closer to the attacker there because you're not totally out of the woods yet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we, it's fine. We can keep moving. As a matter of fact, this is a game I'm excited to talk about. So, real quick though, to take away is though. Got started right back. Look good. I mean, the stuff he's doing in combination. You know, he's able to come inside sometimes. He's popping up on the left side of the pitch, something like that. There's a lot of fluidity that Villarreal is playing with right now. And also the fact that he moved to center back late in the match. Those are some things that you should take away from this. Suits for thought. Tell me, maybe there's things going forward. Yeah. I've been thinking about what if, what if he, we kind of slide everyone, like, like, he becomes a center back in Serginio, becomes a right back. At this point, we have other wide players, you know, who can play in that water. It's interesting. I, you know, I usually, I'm, I usually shut down a lot of things as far as things that are out of the ordinary and maybe like young players that I don't think are baked enough yet and all this different type of stuff. But you know what, the center back position is so dire. Yep. Let's go ahead. Let's go ahead. I wouldn't be mad at seeing it. Speaking of, actually, we'll get to know Kenis second, but we'll talk about one more guy who started for the first time this season. Mr. Joseph Scally. Oh, got a goal. Good work. Go work with, I was with his left foot, right? And then it came off of a, a cold camp will get away. So they, they, they were at home against Elversburg. They also, it's another common theme. They blow lead to three on an unanswered goals late in the second half. Two after Joe came off. He came off in the 77 minute, but I thought he was, you know, he was kind of a Joe Scally performance all in all. Like, yeah, for sure. And also, he had a, he had a Alex Freeman first goal kind of situation where Elversburg kind of pounced on a, I think it was a shot from Elversburg, that I think either went off the post of the crossbar, took a funny bounce and Joe was basically there. Like, like, it basically bounced to the far post off of the crossbar, I want to say. And Joe, Joe was there. He's the, he's the far post. Like, the shot came from the other side. And Elversburg attacker was like, first to it, which really, he came from a line behind. So it should have been the midfielder following that attacker and kind of trying to take care of that situation. But either way, Joe is at a scene of the crown there. But other than that, though, let me tell you brother, cold Campbell. Cold Campbell got putting Joe Scally's down pocket. Joe, Joe was not playing with that man. Yeah, he was not good. He was not good. That was one of the more comprehensive pocketings. I've seen, I've seen it in a while. Like, Cole was trying to do his cold thing, get out of transition, get on the run, do some kicking runs, et cetera. Joe wasn't going. Joe was matching him for pace. Joe was like, Cole would try to kick and run. Joe, Joe knew the playbook as soon as soon as it would happen. He would try to push it past him. Joe just, you know, turn box out, you know, be going out of the way, brother. So yeah, Cole Campbell got a, he got something. He got a lesson. He got a lesson from Joe. I have to say. But even when, like, there's a situation in the first half where he gets the ball in the box in a little bit of space and he's just like, he does a little bit too much with it. Yeah, I mean, you slash, he doesn't really know what to do with it. He feels, he's pretty one footed, right? Is that a fair criticism? Yeah. And like you said last week, brother, I don't know, we don't know what position he is. We don't know what he is. He's just out there running around, like, he's got, sure, some athleticism, some, some juice to him, some speed, but like, and like, he's okay technically, but I'm not, I'm not buying stock yet. Okay. Probably not ever, to be honest. I'm just, I love to hide people of it. If I see the talent, the genius, you know, like a Jack McLean, but otherwise, if I don't see it with you, I'm not going to, I'm not going to traffic Falls Hope and Cole Campbell. Yeah, not, not on my, not appointment viewing for me just yet. So first time I've seen him play live in a long time, to be fair. Okay. I mean, fair enough, fair enough, but look, Elvesbury, let me tell you something. Brothers up top. Once again, they get it done. I mean, if you see the Elvesbury goal, who was scored by their striker, they are a danger in transition, bro. They are, they seem to be a kind of respectable side. The defense might not be, well, not might not, will let them down. It seems, but I really do think they got enough to stay up. I've been, I've been pleasantly surprised watching them play for sure. So, also in Germany, Mr. Noki Banks went 90 for Augsburg and a 4-1 win over Frankfurt. Augsburg is a, they're kind of flying right now. Yeah, it might not be a relegation battle for them this year, let's say. Yeah, Mr. Banks at the center of it all, I mean, started all three matches and had some words to say about his international decision, Sanjay. He did. Well, I was going to lead with what, what pot shed? Go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, Noki's not going to be in this next camp. So, pot shed today. Firstly, he said, we are in contact with all the potential dual nationals. I think it's important for us to see, of course, because that is the connection, the human connection that is so important, even if they, like in that case, and he's referring to Banks, then changing his mind and his weighting, still in no decision. And of course, we cannot consider him from the next camp. That is the case, but also the organization is working with all dual national and play with the possibility to make decisions. So, yeah, he's not coming in. He's still, he's still undecided. Is it just of it? Yeah, what, what, what, what are you thinking about this? I really don't know what to think. It's, so Noki, he himself said, basically, that he told the DFB, that's what the German thing's called. Yeah. Yeah, the DFB and the USSF, that he's not ready to make a decision yet, but also in his quote, he says, I know I have to make a decision by next international window, meaning the November window. And I'm kind of confused as to why he would even put a timeline on that. He'd be tied then, right? If he plays for the US, I guess, because it's KongaCaf, I think. Don't quote me, but those are KongaCaf games coming up. That nation's league. Right, right, that nation's league qualifier, whoever quarter final. Yeah, the, the home away, home away against whoever we get. So I don't understand why he feels like he needs to make a decision, but why he has to put a timeline on it, especially if, especially with Germany being one of the, one of the teams, you know, I'm saying like, if you make a decision by November, are you getting a call up to Germany by November? Who knows? So it's like, you can look at this anyway you want to. You can say, oh, he's putting a timeline on it, which means the USA is in a good position because there's no way he's going to Germany call up by November, you know, kind of thing. Or you could say he's putting a timeline on it. He already, he already thwarted our advances pre-World Cup. And so he's going to commit this fast after turning that down for World Cup. There's no way he's saying yes to the US three months after saying no to a World Cup, you know, kind of thing. So I don't know, but, but I also do not feel like all is lost. Yeah. Klopp watch them play recently. Not sure if he's he's really in his ear. I'd be kind of surprised because they obviously a lot of guys. And the pipeline always we get really excited about him, but he's just a number to them. Hopefully he makes the right decision. But if he doesn't, I don't care. I'm over it after World Cup. I mean, like we said too, we talked about this before. He's not a business handler. So I'm not like, like, if this, if this was like a meal pier, well, like in terms of his, his profile, not necessarily his quality, but if he's like, you know, out there mulling people, then I, you know, but like we talked about his, what his actual game is like. So we'll see. I think maybe he's putting a timeline on it because, right, if he waits any longer, then you might as well just stand waiting for Germany. You know what I mean? It's, it's, it's, he was very, that's fair. He was really young for the World Cup, but it's a complete slap in the face to us if he's waiting even longer. Because then it's like, you know, we know what's up there. Yeah, you're right. We're like, we're like, clearly, we want you for the senior national team. You keep being us off. Then, yeah, that makes perfect sense to me. Real quick, let's go over to France. Tim Weyah, Marseille, Loss de Paris FC, 3-1. I just, I just want to mention this real quick. Tim Weyah, I got roasted by Luca Coliocio, but Paris FC's first goal. For those who don't own Luca Coliocio is, he is an American who grew up in Connecticut. His father played running back for the University of Oklahoma. He, to, to, to, to, to give you his, American bonafides, you know, I'm saying this is to not to downplay the American as of anybody. But this is somebody who has been born and bred in the US. He has the opportunity to represent Canada. I think his mom is an Italian or a Canadian Italian. So he's somebody who has opportunity to represent the US, Canada, and Italy. He's someone who has had opportunities. He played a little bit in the Premier League for Burnley when they were up. What, three years ago at this point, has bounced around with the Espanol where he started his professional career from that mistake. And also now ends up at Paris FC. Seems to be doing a little bit. He's doing a little something. I know he had a, he had a good spell for them in the second half of last season. And here he just, he just, just absolutely burns Tim Weyah for pace. He just played in behind. Tim Weyah is basically unable to catch up until Luca Colio shows like firmly in the box causing danger for the Marseille defense. And he squares the ball and a goal of scored. And the main reason why I want to talk about this is not not the point, not necessarily to point out Tim Weyah's defensive ineptitude. That's part of it. But I do, I do want to say, you know, we talked about the fact that him being the captain of Marseille and we applauded it. And we said, good job, Tim Weyah. I'm proud and excited, etc. But that's a perilous position, brother. Because if you don't know, if you don't know, the fans of Marseille are some absolutely crazy people. And so far in league on this season, they beat Strasbourg and they lost to Monaco and Paris FC. So if if I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if results continue this way, we might see our boy Tim Weyah under some serious strife, like a situation where he's going to have to face some very scary supporters as the captain of the club and come out and try and talk to them and kind of talk them off the ledge before they start blowing up the training ground or whatever they'd be doing over in Europe. I mean, for people that don't know, like look it up, like the stories of supporters just going crazy during some like bad stretches of and for Marseille, it's not like being relegation threatened is not what's going to set them off. It's like being firmly mid-table is what's going to set them off, you know. So just keep an eye on this. Keep an eye on the situation. I forgot about Coleo's show to be honest with you. What did you say the American football connection was? I did not know that. His dad played running back for Oklahoma. Louis Coleo's dad. Mm-hmm. I don't know if he actually played, but he was, yeah, he was a University of Oklahoma running back. Damn. Yeah. Oh yeah, squad man running back. Look at that. Wow. All right, let's move on to Malik. 167 minutes, easy win for Lever Cousin. The real news recently with him is that we learned, so we talked about the drama there, and you know, Comments he made. Right, right, right. Almost pushed him. They got him out out of there. But now we learned that Brighton made a serious push for him, and we're ready to pay 45 million euros as according to build, and yeah, they held on to him, so. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's interesting. It kind of seemed like maybe both parties wanted that move. Kinda sorta, but I guess it didn't happen. It would have, it would have maybe been nice to see him over at Brighton, but man, let me see, because for me, I mean, I only think this is controversial. Malik still does not have like a true top five league season under his belt, where he was what we think he can be, you know what I'm saying? And so go ahead and stay in Germany this season and smack the Bundesliga, which really he has yet to do, even at the start of this season. So like really, really go crazy over there, and then we can, you know, we can talk, man, have your people talk to my people, and we'll get back to it. But yeah, I need to see some, I need to see some production out of you on the league. Let's go, man. May not have mentioned this before, but Sergenio also could have gone somewhere before the window closed, apparently there was interest from Fulham, but he obviously has stayed put in the Netherlands. Let's look to, so John Luca 190, we need to lose three two though. They came back, they were down 2-0, and then equalized late, but then can see the game win or late, and that's a crucial three points, you know, points slipping through their fingers against another team that was just promoting frozen no day. Tanner Testman, John Luca's former team mate in Manitza, Tanner Testman, came off the bench the last 15 to see out about 3-1 win for Leole against Alessair, as I'm Friday. Johnny also got about 15 minutes off the bench with Athlete. Athlete was down 2-0 and they end up losing 3-0 to Athletic Club O'Bouse, so not an ideal start in terms of minutes for Johnny this season. We'll keep an eye on that. I thank Potsch. Potsch seems to like Johnny, I think he'll bring him in, but you know, we had more yank on yank crime in England this weekend. Potsch and Jesus were in attendance for this at Craven Cottage on Saturday, Chris against Jedi. Chris went 90, Jedi went 80. Palace pull it out. Three two one. Needed to win. Needed to win. Yeah, you know, we're kind of a little anxious about what could happen in them this season, so good to see them get. Three points, Gozo did not play. Again, he's probably better off staying over there, right? During the international break, what do you think? Yeah, yeah. Brando came off the bench for about 30 minutes for Leeds and a moment draw. He was subbed off at halftime last week and then didn't start this week, so I'm gonna keep an eye on. And what else? I think that just about does it. Oh wait, we got some standing for a sec. We got some champ outav views. Rogus Puchus came on in the eight to fourth minute to see how to 1-0 win. At KPR, the three bros started and Puchus came in, which was good to see. Jack McGlin gets 30 minutes for stoke. They were already at 4-0 and they were up a guy too. Luca Bombaynot didn't play over the weekend, but he made his debut on Tuesday, played the second half. I don't want no win against Norwich. And just about does it for us. I also want to shout out Justin Ellis gets another assist back to back weeks. Him and Griezmann got a good connection with DK starting with Griezmann out. Ellis in a different role, but you know, I mean, I'm just really intrigued by him. He's one of these guys like, I don't know what position he is, but I'm intrigued and he's so talented that I want to see more of him. It's not like a guy kind of a co-camble where to me he's like maybe not that good and kind of lost. Justin Ellis can play. I would hope, you know, when Puch mentions Orlando, that's a reference to Justin Ellis, right? We'll see what the allocation is like between the Olympic side of camp, the E-23s with Steve Schrundelow and Puch's group. Puch other work in closely together, but Justin Ellis, I talked about, you know, this wave of technically gifted guys coming up, Audrey, Kevin, you know, hopefully we get a Geo Renaissance. Justin Ellis, I'd put him in that group. You were honest. I'd just never seen him play, but watching him play even a little bit, like it's, you can see it, man. There's someone there. Yeah, like I said in the prospect episode, like as soon as I turned a tape on, I was like, whoo, okay, you know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, yeah, we've talked about him at Nazim, but you have the fact that these skills are able to play up in the MLS in his first exposure to the MLS. That tells y'all you need to know. And so going forward, I think he's, yeah, I think he's going to be able to go abroad and take his talent somewhere at some point. But anyway, that is it. It's Labor Day. It's a scuff podcast. It's a Monday review. Thank you all for, again, for your patrons. Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoyed the long, long weekend. And yeah, we appreciate you guys. And the fact that we don't have to take a bag from that's right. That's right. That's right. You know what I'm saying? We are laboring on Labor Day, and we are happy to do it. And not, and not, I don't know, I was going to say conforming, but, but not, yeah, yeah, we're, we're, we're mavericks, but it's, it's because of you. Right. That's right. We're lucky. We're always grateful, but we are lucky. But also get excited, guys. Like, you know, we're, we're excited to be at this point, you know, going into a new cycle, a champions league starting long FIFA window coming up. We have three pods last week. We got, we got a lot coming for you this month into into October and into this World Cup cycle. So thank you guys and stay tuned. All right. We'll see you.
