The Pot 1 Imperative & Floor-Raising Paradigm: Scuffed #726 Breakdown

Welcome to the SCUF Podcast, we talk about U.S. Soccer. We have venidos. Our first fall make a window is almost here. We have games in late September, early October against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada. A roster is dropping in two days, allegedly. I'm saying this on Tuesday. And we're here to talk about it. This is Vince and we have the honorable Greg Velasquez in the building in his war room, ready to go. Greg, how you doing? Doing good Vince, how are you? Couldn't be better. Couldn't be better. Great to see you. Your face, you know, I mean, happy to have you back, brother. I'm glad to be here, man. This is a fun little experiment, isn't it? This fall window, Patritino as having four games to play and I guess we'll find out if his thoughts on friendly windows are the same as they were last cycle, where you just really never know what he thinks of him or how much he values him or if he's now got one world cup under his belt and he's like, okay, now I now I got this plan. I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to make the most of every window. Well, right. So since we're here, let's do some quick catching up, Greg. It's been a while since the listeners of Scuff podcast have heard your thoughts. I know they're itching for him. Let's get a few questions in there. Well, let's start off first of all with the man with the plan, Mauricio Paschino, brought back as manager, where we'll ask as what says you, any qualms? No, I have no qualms. I'm all for it mainly because I'm still mostly in that boat that says as long as the manager isn't actively destroying your chances, you're probably doing okay for a national team. And I don't think Paschino was really out there just wrecking stuff, making horrendous calls with setup, with personnel. And I find him super entertaining. So for me, this is this is a guy that I want to be entertaining like his press conferences are fun. Also entertaining because is a time so difficult to parse what his objectives are for different elements of the national team coach, from what we've become accustomed to over decades of the US team and how their coaches operate. And that's been fun, even just to kind of watch the narrative have to shift in mold and twist itself into knots because you think, oh, this is what he is now, this is what he does. And then he'll just do something completely different in one window later. And it's just impossible to like really grasp the man. For sure. That's the whole thing about it is like, because obviously he got to the point that I think we all agree he should have got to by the World Cup. So I mean, I mean, the route was secure with us, but I mean, he got there, right? And so with and with the whole cycle this time, do you think he's going to be able to unlock some extra mentality, you know, he's very big on these on these soft factors, these soft scales, all these different types of things, maybe potentially we don't go out as meekly in the in the next World Cup. Because of it, if Mauricio does stay for four years, do you think there's any possibility in that? I think it's totally possible. I think it's a, I think it's like a, it can be a fun job if you lean into it that way that he might, you know, we're watching Emma do it on the women's side. She seems to be loving it. And you know, she was coming from the grind of running, I mean, basically running that club like building it from scratch, Chelsea, and so I think there, there is an appeal to it. If you kind of are over that grind, it could be a really fun, really fun career path to finish off with. So I think it's totally possible. I mean, he's, it's like, there's a sense where it's still a honeymoon, you know, we lost in, in pretty rough fashion, but it's not like, it's not like anyone's out here demanding his head. It's not like he's got everyone on his side saying, we, Posh Tino is the guy on tire, but there isn't that same kind of pressure and vitriol that I think, you know, you're going to get at the high profile clubs, or if you were Greg Burrell, they're coaching the men. Right. Right. I was about to say it helps me. I'm a reseo Posh Tino doesn't. Yeah, it does. And you know, whatever. I don't care what I mean about that is just it's fun and it's different for him, certainly on the, in the way he's covered in the media, or at least in our little ecosystem. Yeah, definitely. And having, I mean, you know, I'm a Greg Burrell to stand, whatever, but, but having a coach that seems like a good 90%, 95% of the fan base can get behind. It's a lot more fun than dealing with Greg Wars every single day. I do have to say. So I mean, as long as Marisha wants to stay on, we can do that. So moving past the manager, are there, are there any thoughts that you've been mulling over in your head, Greg, post-World Cup, since we went out, meekly, as a, as a reference a little bit earlier, is there any, is there anything stuck in there that you can't quite get out of your head or anything you've been working, working around? You know, it's, it's been a lot of like, who's, who's going to be the, the guy who, who really makes us better, because a lot of the, a lot of the discussions about what went wrong, what could, what could have fixed it, our depth, all that stuff. A lot of it still feels to me like kind of deck chairs, where you can shift some things around with this player pool, but there, there just is not, I don't think, again, super low hanging fruit. We've, we've got to dodge the total, uh, own goals. I mean, we didn't technically score an own goal in the World Cup. We got a lot in our favor, mongol, but that Belgium loss, sure felt like, man, we, we, we got some goals in there. Uh, you know, the, the Copa exit, uh, in 2024, felt, you know, the big, uh, own goal with Timway. Like, we have to be able to dodge those, like that, I guess, is the low hanging fruit. And, and maybe there is an element of, of mentality that can help you do that, uh, but, but again, I don't, I don't necessarily think like, well, Pachatino is definitely the guy because he talks about all the time, because he was the guy and we still had it happen. Uh, so it was just, you just got to really light your candles and, and hope to avoid some of those. But no, I don't, I don't know, man, like it doesn't seem like, uh, we'll talk about the, the pool, but for, for guys who maybe missed out in this last tournament, uh, who are really in the running. One of them, none of them feel, you know, Aiden Morris was, people wanted another backup, you know, defensive men. It's like Aiden Morris isn't changing things, uh, maybe Timway, a guy, and I know he had a rough outing in his start, and then didn't, didn't get to chance to make any kind of difference against Belgium, but I don't think Timway has necessarily, like, turned that game on its head. For, I mean, for sure, I agreed, agreed, like, yeah, we definitely, I don't know, I know, I've said a lot of things, post work up at this point, but I think one of them that I might have said is like, we just got to, we got to raise the floor, which I think is sneakily a more difficult thing to do than raising the ceiling of a team. Like, you, you know, you can raise the ceiling, just, just put a speculative 14 year old in there. Everybody's going to be hyped. You're like, oh, it's a ceiling razor. It's somebody we never, you can put Diego Luna in there. Oh, yeah, it's something different. That's something we've never seen before. But the actual floor of, you know, what we can expect when the U.S. misnash with team steps on the field, can we expect a certain level of performance, whether it's against, I mean, Greg, you've been doing this, you know, whether it's against El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, et cetera. We've seen the whole gamut and it does not matter who the team is. So yeah, some floor razors really, really would help. But moving on to this mega window, our first mega window that we've seen that I guess will last in perpetuity. I like it. I'm excited for the structure of it, like the format. I do think it's pretty cool. Like, you know, to get the national, I mean, for us, to have the national team together for a solid two weeks, two and a half weeks, I guess, I will take it each time. So for this window, specifically, as weird as it is, post-World Cup and all this stuff, what do you think the objectives of the window should be? Okay. This is going to sound ridiculous. I think one of the objectives of the window should be to, like, should be to, like, just entertain, like, have some fun. And you can do that with almost any combination of personnel, but, you know, the World Cup was a lot of fun right up until it suddenly very much was not. And I think you can, even in zero-stakes competitions, I think you can create a bit of that, that fun, that energy. And we've got Mexico. We've got Canada. We've got some storylines built in there. So there's ways that this could be a really enjoyable time. And because of the format, I think it's huge. It doesn't feel like, not just pointless, but actively harmful to all of our guys who are just starting their European seasons, like, every other fall window had been previously where it's like, this is so dumb. What are we doing? The guys just got to their clubs. A lot of them have moved, whatever they're settling in, new managers. Our team was so young that it's always like, they were all just trying to break in. And it felt silly to play two games and then just ship them back. So to have this bigger break feels like it's meaningful. However, Posh treats it, whoever brings in, they'll get some good time and it won't be a total, just like, interruption to what they should really be focused on. Okay, so Greg, so I guess I'll start here. I'm thinking about Greg Velasquez and your usual opinions on friendly matches in general versus what I just heard from you there. So I guess what is the difference between friendlies more or less not mattering versus versus now this window you should entertain. So I guess these things aren't mutually exclusive. It could not matter and you still can want to entertain. What can you talk to do that a little bit more? Oh, I mean, part of the entertaining for me is going to be throwing a couple of these exciting feeling grazers in there. Like I hope we do it. There's not like a competitive urgency in my mind whatsoever to get to get Kevin in now. Like if he doesn't get in this window, I mean, I kind of expect him to now because there's an excitement. It's like, why ignore it? There's no downside when you think about, you know, opportunity costs, whoever we leave out of a roster in this window for for a cabin solving is an essential body. We just don't have that many essential bodies that we can't just spare. We have so many expendable bodies still in this pool respectfully. So it's like just bringing him in that that's already like it's already a fun camp. You do that and we're having some fun here. There. There. What do you think we'll see an actuality? Do you have any sense of that? I mean, I don't. Just doing shots in the dark. Yeah, I really have no clue because again, Pachotino's first big window, you know, after sort of after the humbling that we had against Panama under Pachotino, we finally got like the full, full available players in the fall after, you know, after a bunch of them had gold cup commitments that they couldn't skip or just kind of chose not to then we get our full choices available to us for that fall window. And he still was just like, don't need this guy, not bringing this guy. This guy can stay with the club. Right. Right. And so it's totally possible that we're going to see that again now with a bunch of European players who are who are all kind of in like, I mean, some of them are kind of in limbo, who knows what Bologna's half is at this point. He is certainly a limbo. He was like, do we bring him because who cares? It's not like he's going to miss anything at Monaco or do we leave him because he just isn't playing any soccer? Like, I just, I have no idea. And I don't really think there's a right or wrong answer. It is such a disposable window in the competitive sense. And that's again, why I think it's completely fine to just be like, let's have some fun with this. Okay. One more thing before we get off this Greg. Any thoughts to the fact that we need to do anything, everything in our power to get part one? Oh, man, like, I see that and there is a real like ruthless logic to it. And part of me is just like, it's, it feels like such a, you got to shoot the moon kind of thing that if you're going to commit everything to it, you could still fall short. And that's where it's like, then you sacrifice a lot and there, you still didn't get into that pot anyway. But I do, I do definitely see the math behind it where it's like, nothing we do will matter as much to our likelihood of success as dodging a part one team. Right. I mean, we saw how fun our group was to not have a part one team in it with respect to ourselves. So, you know, technically in this case, we would have earned that part one. So we would be a part one team. Right. Because, I mean, I was in the, I was in a discord the other day. I think Jordan put up some type of poll or something about like, who, how many people or something would start a world cup game that are like, not, I don't know what the prompt was, but it was about people starting world cup games. And out of a, out of a certain cohort of people and I saw him reply to it and was like, remember, these people started a world cup game and it was like, you know, the line up from, from Turkey, right? Like, you know, all the trusty, et cetera, et cetera. And I just saw that I was like, ah, at pot one life, man, like you can, you can do some freaky things, man, when you, when you're a pot one team, yeah, yeah, get all types of crazy. Well, you got to get pot one and then you also need the other good team in your group to totally choke it away. Right. Of course, of course. You got to have it. It feels like you're really shooting the moon and putting a lot of eggs in that basket. Well, well, also, what about this though? Is there not a part of you that's like, it's, it's, it's, it's time to stop being soft on these dudes? You know what I'm saying? So you said the point or you said the word sacrifice, you know, we sacrifice a lot to pursue pot one, et cetera. And I guess my question is, what exactly would we, would we be sacrifice? Yeah, like how, how different are we really going to treat it? If we're like, no, we're going to call the players to try to win this game, you know, again, even you could, you could still rotate around the fringes because if Austin trusty isn't there, I'm not, I'm not saying they're going, oh my god, we just lost pot one. Neil Pierre. How are we going to, how are we going to get pot one without Austin trusty there? And, and this sounds horrific. I mean, this is, this is obviously ridiculous, Austin trusty is not like a bad player. I'm just using him as a, there's, there's 20 guys we could be saying like that guy, if he is the difference between pot one and not, then, then again, really it's just not a possibility. We just aren't going to do it. That's what we're talking about. Quite honestly, I would like to see us field mostly are strong players. I would like to see our core players who are available, get in here and play and, and look, like, play slick football and look good, and, and I think we would win games doing that, and that would build us towards pot one. It's just, I also have always been okay with the, the call up compromises for long term club health and, and sort of optimal, you know, movement within a club. So yeah, that's the, that's the, that for me, that's the tension. It's not necessarily like, you can't bring in, Kevin, you can't bring in, uh, Mehmeti, like those guys, they aren't ready, like, I don't, I don't care at all about how ready they are compared to Aiden Morris, except Berhalter. I just, well, we're going to get into the player pool, leave it there, we're going to get into the player pool position by position, right after this break. We're back. All right, Greg, since you're here, you know, we got to start off with the keeper's baby, um, incumbents, we're looking at what, Matt Freeze, Matt Turner, Chris Brady, feels expendable. Um, new, new blood, um, insert random MLSer, respectfully, um, also Diego coaching. Uh, well, first of all, I, I guess I'll start here. Do, do we need, do we need to make a change? You said everybody's expendable. Um, I, I continue to just, to just feel bad for Matt Freeze. Yeah. Just because that just seems like, uh, I feel like anybody could have made that mistake. Yeah, I don't know. It's, but well, this is what it is. We were so asked in that match, but like I've said many times before, we still had zero shots, leading up to the Matt Freeze blunder in the second half. Yeah, um, that I, I just hate that he's become the go to this whole situation. Well, I, I do love, I do appreciate that, uh, while he is, he has the biggest sort of punchline moment, uh, nobody at any point is, is unscathed. Like you compare this to, to Netherlands 2022, and it was really easy to just Ferreira, right? Ferreira was bad. And he was bad. And so everything was Ferreira. A lot of other guys were bad too. Like real, real bad. Like worst games of the tournament by far. Uh, and, but they kind of got off easy for all to help, too, because you can just focus everything. Laser beams on, on those two. He's like the rod. Yeah, Reese, Reese gets the big punchline moment, but no one is escaping that game. Like no one's getting out of their, uh, unscathed. Like everyone's, everyone's took a huge hit from, uh, from their status. After, after being as high as they have ever been, going into that game where suddenly, you know, all the, all the talk about mentality had totally shifted. And even the old school vets who had been so hard on these guys and their mentality and their toughness were all now singing their praises. And then it all just disappeared like that. But yes, freeze, freeze doesn't need to be there. Understood. Um, yeah. So Matt, freeze we can, we couldn't thank you for your service, brother. Thank you for your service. Um, random, uh, so I've done. Well, I didn't really do anything. I just looked at foot mob and just, and just really quick. Just looked at, uh, goals allowed versus post shot XG. Yeah. Um, for the MLS keepers that we have stats on. The only ones that truly stick out like, uh, freeze, not that great. He's okay. I, I, if I remember correctly, um, salty, Patrick, salty. Not, I think he's allowed maybe one more goal than post shot XG scene. Uh, and I know this is a flawed stat, everybody. But the, we have two standouts, Matt Turner, who's about seven goals under his post shot XG face. And Nashville goalkeeper. I think his name's Brian Schwachi. Bring him, uh, because again, it basically doesn't matter. I still think Turner should have been the guy in the World Cup. And I think you keep leaning on him because he has consistently hit really good numbers, uh, unmeasured goals. He has had a long spell of being, uh, a real liability, like a general liability. Not like, oh, he's just limited when the ball's at his feet. He has gifted other team scoring chances. The same way, freeze, you know, did in the World Cup. So you, you, you can't really ever escape that now as a goalkeeper. That will be tied to him for the rest of his career. It's like, uh, you know, that lack of confidence. And it will, it will affect a manager's trust in starting him in tournament games. Like one mistake, and that's it. Um, but I think, I think you still, at this point, lean on his shot, stopping. You, you just get comfortable with him until you just can't be anymore. Uh, or get as comfortable as you can. And you just hope that a Diego coach and, or somebody else steps up and can, again, hit that same level of competence, uh, the Turner's display. What a shot-stopping wise, like, it just isn't that likely. Like, we've been excited about other young keepers coming up. And most of them found their way into MLS. And none of them have been able to really hit what Turner's shot-stopping numbers have been pretty consistently for his career. Yeah. Uh, like I said, only one of the closest Mr. Schwachy, um, that, that is planned for top of the table Nashville, uh, SC, and uh, Mr. B. J. Callahan, of course. Yeah. Um, and so I've, I've seen some calls from him. I have not watched, uh, one bit. I'm sorry, keepers, then no disrespect Greg, but, but I'm, I'm just kind of out. They are, they're all, they're all kind of, all kind of seem replaceable to me, which brings me to my question for you. Like, what, what? When can we see like a, because even with Turner, when he was playing for me, outside of maybe the gold cup, all I'm seeing are, are replacement level performances, in my eyes. What, what's the, what's the Delta here? Like when, when can we, like, I understand maybe we don't have it in the, in the pike, don't have an elite goalkeeper in the, something, but when will we know with, is it, is it just you, you know, when you see it kind of thing? I think, like, and, and, and, and, and what are we missing by not having a traditional elite goalkeeper? I mean, I don't know, man, like it's, even the numbers that we're using that we know are flawed. Like, Turner had been outstanding, you know, in that battle with Stefan, last time in, in Brawlter's, I go, right? And, and even then I was trying to, you know, make it clear, you're not just going to be like, uh, Turner has a shut out in game, Stefan wanted to give him up four goals in, like that's not how it happens, like over a, over a full league season of 30 games, like Turner might, Turner might be, say, you five or six goals over stuff, which is still really good. It matters a lot in a league. I mean, maybe more than that, even for, for Turner, Stefan, Stefan was never that good of a shot stopper. Stefan just looked like a Hollywood goalkeeper. Uh, so you, you just don't see it on a save by save basis and you'll even say, like, you get caught in that, like, wood, wood, someone else have saved this and you, you know, you're breaking down these goals and super slow motion. And it's like, maybe sometimes they would have, and it kind of becomes the same thing as, would he have, would this striker have finished it? Like, yeah, you would have, but then the next weekend, that striker has a miss just as bad because everyone misses strikers all his shots and keepers all make outrageous saves and give up goals where a save is definitely possible. And it's right on the line of like, good, you know, he got a fingertip or he was a little later, his footwork was sloppy. Uh, so there, no, there is, there isn't going to be a super clean way. And that's why managers will, you know, lock into one and it will take a lot to replace them. Either, uh, an amazing run of form right when you're evaluating, which is what Matt Turner delivered in 2021 and that gold cup combined with the other keeper making some high profile mistakes, which Zach Stefan did, uh, for both man city and a little bit with the US. But that's, it really takes like that much to, to, to overtake a goalkeeper because you're right, they're mostly all just pretty close at our level in our pool. Fair. Well, the, the, the one kid we have, or at least the one that's abroad in Europe with high potential, I don't want to disrespect anybody on, on these shores, a Diego coach has been in between the sticks for Lingby. Is it Lingby? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. For Lingby, um, all of this season over in Scandinavia. Greg, how's he look to you? He looks solid. Like he's making, he's making routine saves look routine. Uh, he's not, I mean, he's not flapping at anything. When he gets scored on, you're like, okay, that's a goal. You get scored on, like, where there is, there wasn't like a, a big mistake there, you know? Right. Uh, so that's, that's, for me, it's like that's solid enough. And, and he's got a real good pedigree coming from Barcelona, like, for whatever else, I feel like that back in matter. And I assume it does matter to Pachatino, but honestly, uh, I mean, this is somebody who, before he was playing first team, senior, uh, soccer that was called up by Pach. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So we've got that, we've got that history in, um, so I kind of, I'm kind of expecting to see his name on the list. Yeah. Me too. I mean, just, he just put some great tape together, uh, a couple of weeks ago, like he had one of those games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, uh, you, you talk about the OB. Yeah. I guess it was just a crazy club name. I didn't know there was a soccer team days. It's called OB. But it's Odense Bold Club, right? That's, uh, I had, I got real familiar with the data super league and back in the early days of scoffed. Fair enough. Odense Bold Club, it is, but, um, Diego put up a bold performance. I really, I would like to see him in between, in between the sticks. I mean, so far, there hasn't been much to see with his feet. I don't think Linby, uh, aspires to play out of the back whatsoever, um, as far as I can tell, but, you know, we, I guess we can lean back on his, um, LaMazia training and just maybe know that he has a certain amount of comfort with the ball at his feet. And you combine that with the saves that I've seen him make so far in this, in this season. Um, yeah, uh, sign me up, sign me up. So he's, he's got a perfect situation. Like, this is the perfect time to be a promising young goalkeeper for the US national team because, uh, I mean, we literally, I mean, we almost can't run with our, you can run with frees. Don't get me wrong. You can call him up and essentially give him this chance to sort of redeem himself in these moments. But, but, you know, the leash on him is not existing if that is a conscious plan. Like, this, he has no, he has sort of no standing to be like, I'm the guy and that you won't have that with the players either or it's like, oh, we, we need that frees back there. We got to have frees. What do we do in trying out other guys? Like, that just isn't going to be anybody's mentality. So this is the perfect time for coaching to just not screw up, not have a huge howler. And you can take this job over. That's it. Simple as that. Every simple, every like spend the bar for six years now. All right. All into the center backs are incumbents. Of course, we got Chris Richards, Mark McKenzie, Tim Reem, Austin trusty, Miles Robinson. I, as I was writing this out from the World Cup roster, I truly forgot how many center backs we brought. I was like, oh, man, you know, I like I wrote the first four down and then I was going back over the list. I'm like, oh, Miles Robinson. But anyway. So the age old question we've been asking for at this point four years now, Greg, is it time for Tim Reem testimonial? Man, it's been seven years. He got cooked by Diego Linus in the first nation's league. I feel like it was like, well, that's it. He can't keep playing back in 2021. But he was kind of put out to the wilderness at that point. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I don't think you have to retire him. I hope he isn't, I hope he isn't an every match starter. But for me, there's plenty of spots again to have the 45 year old player cut. Like that's totally fine to have on the roster. These rosters are 26 players. Like you don't use anyone. Like we just saw we've got five, five guys and would rather not play four of them at all. Yeah. So we're not itching to get all these guys on the field. But I mean, if, if watching things, Reem adds value in the locker room, I'm all for it. I hope he is not a 90 minute game player for four games in September and October. Yeah. That's what it comes out to. Agreed. One started. I hope Timberman gets one start. That's the moment. I just feel like because I mean, you want to talk about somebody else who maybe comes out of that Belgian game with more egg on face than others, especially like publicly. And as far as optics, optics wise, you know, get getting dunked on by just a very regular striker. It was not Lukaku. You can give him a pat on the back. Like, you know, if it's prime Lukaku, Tim Reem, you're like, ah, we'll get him next time, bro. Yeah. I mean, that was the Matt Beasler in 24 in 2014. Yeah. CDK. I can't. I can't take that the same way. But it is what it is. Once again, center back is just, I mean, looking at these names on the screen, it's tough. So which might make it easier for new blood. We got Neil Pierre. And a little sneaky Justin Chey to Justin Chey has come back from the wilderness Greg of playing a center back from New York Red Bulls or for New York Red Bulls. I watched. They played L.A.F.C. in the midweek. And I think they were behind or something. And basically Red Bull was just going like kind of all out in the tech. And which left them accountable to the L.A.F.C. counter attack with Danny Bawanga, Son, etc. Just running at the Red Bull backline consistently. And Justin Chey held up quite, quite well, quite well. Like, you know, I'm seeing we talked a lot about Neil Pierre on the show. But at this point, once again, looking at these names, I'm looking at I would say in this window, we need to go and blood in a Justin Chey and a Neil Pierre for sure. Yeah. And I'm all again, I think it's totally fine to just throw some, throw some stuff at the wall here. I don't particularly know that I feel like these guys are beyond the deck chairs. And again, for sure. But these deck chairs, they were talking about when you get to a Tim Reame, Mark McKenzie, Miles Robinson, you know what? I might even throw a little bit of respect on Austin trusty. I'm going to keep him out of this just slightly because for these deck chairs, man, we're talking about the floppy plastic ones. You know what I'm saying? That's been through a lot. You don't kept them out. All different types of weather, etc. The plastic is wearing out. Like, these things are on the last leg. Like, you would be reticent, like, especially a man, like me, of my size, I would be reticent to sit on these chairs. That's the thing you got to do when you were a baby. You got to, you got to really survey the chair. Is this a crumpling chair? Dude, he's just, he's just some, he's just some crumpling chairs out here, man. So it's like, yes, but if you take the crumpling chair out and swap it out for the exact $20 replacement, that's still an improvement. That's what we're hoping. And that's the thing here. These guys might not even be at that level. Like, these guys might not ever be Mark McKenzie, which is discouraging to think about. Almost credit. But that's, you know, in respect of, like, Matt Miyazga was a deck chair. And he came in and he's a, you know, or any of them, you know, prime MLS, Matt Miyazga level. Like, that's, that's sort of like the, what you got to get to. He just got let go by his club in the middle of a sea. So, so we need them to get to that. We need them to get in surpass that level. And we're just, again, we're, we're kind of pre, you can pre-select them for the national team, hoping that they are there one day. I don't know any of them are there yet. But I also think, again, I also think it's fine to, to run them out for some minutes in these friendlies. And I still think we can get pot one. Yeah, yeah. So that's the thing. I don't think we're sacrificing too much as far as pot one pursuance to throw in a, maybe I'd be probably a little bit more comfortable just in Chey right now just because he can handle the ball a little bit better than Neil Pierre, currently, but Neil Pierre as a, I've said it multiple times, but as a business handler, he has, he has the upside, he has a higher upside than by on this list. I would say Chris Richards, still, well, let me ask you this Greg, are there any more steps for Chris to take or do you think he's probably well fully big? I think he's, I think he's seasonal a bit. I think, I think business handling is something you, you improve on as you get older. So I do think, I do think he'll handle, handle things a little cleaner with more authority because I think that's, I think it's still kind of a weakness for him, you know, and certainly at the international game where, where we really need him to be that guy specifically. He did it in the gold cup for, for six games, but again, that level competition is, is some of the easiest business you can handle. Yeah, for sure. All right, well, that's the center bags. I'm bringing them all full, onto the full bags, incumbents. Of course, we got Alex Freeman, Joe Scally, Jedi Robinson, and Max, a million Arvston. Alex Freeman, I think has one start so far this year for, for Villarreal. Still still sitting behind a merino there and right outside of, well, I didn't want to say Villarreal again, but it's all going to say right outside of Valencia. Joe, Joe Scally was, they tried to put him out to wilderness. Well, I back did, but look who's back in the start line. You could never get rid of Joe Scally. Right back at the start line up, Joe, is doing the, doing the same simple Joe things. Jedi, back in the full line up, playing every week, to mixed results, and Max, a million Arvston looks to be mostly a bit player for Middlesbrough as it stands right now and really as a winger. Not, I have not seen him play full back. He might have, but I've only seen him play on the wing for Middlesbrough so far this season. Max, I think we just, I think we just roll without two guys until the Willis Fall off great with. Yeah, I think so too, and I still think that if you're going to go beyond those two, it would be moving desks back or moving to Muayah on, because I just think they're better soccer players than Arv for Scally's amazing. You literally can look up floor in the dictionary, and it'll just say, like Joe Scally, like this is just where he lives. Yeah, where it, it says the first that I'm aware of the bundle, you know, the Bundesliga, we're going to talk about one here soon in this episode, but they always have the midfield jobbers. Right, you know, Leonard, Leonard Baloney, you know, James Sands when he was in the Bundesliga, guys, he just run around, kick people. Padderone's got it. Our American guy playing for Padderone. That's exactly who we were about to talk about here soon, but Joe Scally is the full-back version of that, you know, just a solid Bundesliga jobber. Physically fit can do the job, gets up and down responsible. Responsibility is probably the core tenet of being a Bundesliga jobber, but yeah, it just says what it is. And you know, it's okay. It's not going to entertain. It's not going to entertain us in this window. I want, that's why I won't wear or surge to like get some minutes back there for if we need to rotate, because those guys at least get the crowd going. Right. And I guess Arv would try to do that from the last side. Yeah, but Alex Freeman, I'm always in a team watching him, like kind of get and give the ball, just the different things that he can do on the ball. While not, he's not immune from a mistake, obviously. There's just so much more comfort on the ball and ability to do things with the ball, than, I mean, if you than a Joe Scally, you know, it's like five X. Alex Freeman, man, if we if we hadn't already coined little brother in such a derisive way for certain players in the pool, I feel like Freeman would be, we could call him a little brother, but in that incredibly affectionate way, like he was the baby of the World Cup roster, but it was roster. He was like, everyone loved that he was out there. And it was just like, everyone kind of embraced him, took him under their way. And like, you can see them directing him around on the field, like, they're helping him learn, because they know he's got something. Right, right. He's that little brother that's like, oh, man, we're so glad we got, like this guy coming in. This is awesome. Once he gets his feet under him, he's going to be cooking. And I feel like that's that's what you see the dynamic with the with the team with him. Yeah, I was thinking about, because it's exactly what I was thinking about, like my little brother, like, when I would bring him around, like my sporting teams or whatever, like growing up and like everybody kind of knew whether it's basketball, football, whatever. Like I was like, man, or just like, like everyone at that point, once people realize you got it, like, everybody wants to take you under the wing. You know, everybody wants to teach you a little something, you know, looked out for you in a different way, but yeah, that's definitely Alex. So new blood, full back position. Hey, we got a throwback. Got throwback, Greg. Brian Reynolds. He's starting to get some minutes at a start runoff. Renee, you played 22 over the weekend to close out a 1-0 win versus Marseille. And he actually looked all right. He looked all right. I got some clips in the clip notes. Anybody wants to check it out. You know, one thing to kind of struck me is that, you know, you can tell that he's been a professional soccer player playing a lot of minutes for a while now, because like, I mean, there wasn't a ton of business for him to handle, but he handled anything that came to him. And then also, you just see him out there as a person who's come to a new team. And who has been tasked with, you know, come in and lock this thing down, make sure Marseille doesn't score, so we can get out here with a win. And he's directing traffic on the back line. Like, he's pointing out runners, like, who's tracking who, when, where. And that was, it was good to see. It was good to see. Like, he's, our boy has turned into a man now. Hopefully, he can get some more minutes for, uh, for men, but he's currently playing a, playing behind former Chicago fire player, uh, premise law, Frank Kowski. Awesome name. Yeah. That's who plays, uh, right back. And he, he's been starting every game so far and has seemingly started the season well. So we'll see, um, win. And if Brian is able to crack that start and lineup and really get some minutes because so far right now, it's the 22 against Marseille. And I think he got four against PSG. Yep. It gets PSG. Other, other blood. Chris Lund. He's in the championship. Caleb Wiley also in the championship. George Bello in the Champions League. Yeah. He has. George Campbell. I put a question mark here. He could also be in the center back. Bucket also in the championship, uh, for West Brom. And, uh, Frankie Westfield, Philadelphia Union, full back. And by, and by stick out to you, Kurt. No. And I think that's the whole thing. Like, like, we don't have, we don't have a phenom in waiting here, uh, in this group. For this window, is that we don't have somebody who's going to like get you super excited. Uh, the sickos would, I would, I'm sure love to see the Chris Lund smile. Like, you could find a reason to be happy for any of them if they get called up. But there's nothing about any of them that you're going to be like, this guy could be the answer for us. Like, even at the point where it's like, I just stick Joe Scally back there. I think we, we don't have to have Chris Lund at left back because we can just stick Scally there. So there's, there's that, that little sort of excitement over any of them. Again, from a competitive standpoint, from a narrow standpoint, they would all be wonderful. George Bellow getting back into the mix. We're pretty sick. Um, yeah. So I, so I guess this is the, um, this is the mark that we're going to make with all these position groups. Um, in any of these new blood players getting stuck into the lineup would be a, a loss in our, um, in our pursuit of pot one, understood, understood. So, so centerbacks because of anybody out, put somebody in, not losing, not losing that much, fullbacks. We will be losing something mostly because of the floor, um, set by, set by Joe Scally as like that, you know, you can't get in the club unless you, unless you, unless you a Joe Scally. Yeah. And, and you can't be more fun than Sergina or Dust. Like no one's going to be more entertaining than what we got for dust. No one's going to be reliable than responsible. Right. The built-in backups that we have as well, understood. Um, onto the midfield. Midfields where it gets a little, I mean, we, we got some people having some stopping starts to their season. Uh, Western McKinney has, has not started whatsoever, um, yet to play this season. I'm willing to say that he will not be here. Um, he will not be on this roster that comes out in two days. Yeah. Uh, anything like what he's been for these clubs. Yeah, there's no way Western McKinney's come. Um, you've, they did say that they expect him to play in the midweek in the Europa League then the Europa League. Yeah, they, um, he should be available to play the Europa League fixture this week. So that's cool. Uh, Malik Telman, as we mentioned yesterday in the Monday review, got a lucky assist, but has not played well. He has gotten minutes, but has not really played well so far for Levy Kusin. Um, I, I, we were so expecting to be there. At least I do. Uh, Tyler Adams, after starting the first few games on the bench, I started the last two Premier League games for Bournemouth, who has yet to get a win so far this season. It's a Bashingborough Hall to doing fine in the championship. Christiane Rodon. Um, Greg, Greg, Greg, it has to be time to salute us, sir. Um, it has to. I mean, I'd say no. And only because again, you're not real. His age isn't a factor for him. If anything, it could be, it could help to have him in the role that he plays for us, which is show up to training in, in like, treat every training like it, like it is the world's got final. And, and hope that that is contagious. So in that sense, Rodon's job until someone else comes in and does that would probably still exist. I don't know if Pachwell, I mean, that was a job for Burhalter too. And Burhalter said, Hey, thanks. That was great. This cycle. We've got it from here. Uh, and then our mentality took a huge dip. It didn't actually recover until Rodon came in because he played against the only missing on TV and Pach brought him in. And then our mentality came back and also coincided or about it. You might have cracked the cold, Greg, because think about it. That was the South Korea, Japan window. When Christian came back and he got that started against Japan, Japan kind of kicked the whole thing off. We started, we started seeing some intelligent design, you know, from, from Pach, from, from then on. You know what? Greg, you might really be on to something. Well, I mean, Pach said it. Pach said, you know, we're missing something in camp. And Christian Rodon provides that. So, so for his, his age, whether he's, you know, past it, whatever he had at his prime, whether he's still in that or not, it probably doesn't matter for what his role would be in these, in these windows. It would be the show up, help the atmosphere, help the environment. And you, you can keep doing that forever. Fair enough. You know what? I've, I've made events. Christian Rodon, come right down. Next, Mr. Giovanni Reina, that started three consecutive games. The, the effectiveness has, has been less, less than desired, less than desired for me. But he started three consecutive games, Greg. I know. It's fun because we can take any victory with Giovanni Reina. We do, we do take any victory in him playing three consecutive games, starting, which means, you know, he's going to play 60 minutes or so. Huge win in my mind, because, because we essentially just, at least, at least here at scuffed HQ, we basically just take for granted that for the national team, he'll give us something. And probably something that only four or five other guys are, are going to give us in any, they won't give us the same thing as Giov, but they might give us some attack that, that at least approximates it. So, so for Giovanni to be playing at all and healthy, answers a question for us that is, is sort of always on the table. And so that means, I sure expect to see him in the scan. Yeah, he's going to be there. Have another category. These people aren't incumbents. They were not on the World Cup roster, but they're also not new blood. And also their club situation is kind of weird right now. They're in the wilderness, Johnny and Tana Testament. We can move on new blood. We got, what are you, are you bringing, are you bringing either? I'm, I'm bringing Johnny, I'm bringing Johnny in. I'm, I'm bringing Tana Testament every day. Okay, available, brother. But I'll take, I'll take a Johnny tool. And so we got new blood, Eunice Musa. Eunice Musa at this point, feels like new blood, feels like a new signing, etc. Adriema Medi, as we talked about earlier, and this is, this is a special one, Greg. This is, as far as I know, this is the first alum of the High School Champions League. Everyone shout out Jim Hart, Friend of the podcast, Men of the podcast, multiple times. The first alum of the High School Champions League, the play in the European Top 5 League, Mr. Santiago Castaneda, from Tampa Bay. That's awesome. And it, it, it is pretty cool. And a pretty under-reported fact, as far as I know. John Lucabusio, who isn't quite new, famously started the first two games in the Briso Pashchino. Uh, Nico Securus. Is there any, I guess this is our, this is our best position group, but is there any, um, any, any shiny deck chairs in here? Wicker, Wicker Furniture. I mean, I still have Musa. I still have a Unis Musa. I'm so excited about the fact that he's playing. I'm trying to, I'm trying to even temper my optimism here because early season, early in the year, you get weird starting players. You get players who play a big role as other guys are, you know, coming back from whether it's World Cup, All Seasons stuff, or whatever. Its teams are incomplete for a while. So I'm like, I don't want to get my hopes up that Unis is like this manager's guy, but he, he's still the guy for now and it's been a while. Uh, and he's doing good. So, so I'm hopeful. But then I also have no idea if that matters to Pashchino, because I don't know if Unis Musa was a soccer decision, uh, to be left out or not. His soccer didn't demand a spot in World Cup, roster at all. Uh, but certain players are good enough, Giorena, that they're going to get in regardless because the national team needs that player. And I thought, I thought, I thought Unis Musa should have been one of those guys, even though he's not amazing, he's so, he can be very steady. And I thought he would help our team. But now he's playing soccer and the question is, does Pashchino just, uh, have a, basically have a personal issue with him? Yeah, yeah, I guess we'll be able to tell after this camp, because I mean, at this point, it's an old banner for me playing and playing and playing very well. Um, Unis Musa is like, let's get him back. And once again, um, just one of the crazy facts of the Marisa Pashchino tenure so far, Unis Musa zero minutes in the midfield for, uh, from Marisa Pashchino in his tenure, you know, when you talked about the, the, the, the route it took to get us to what we did in the World Cup. Uh, we didn't look at, in my opinion, one of our best midfielders in, in the midfield. But anyway, we'll move on. Uh, that, just to be clear, um, Mr, Mr. Castelleta Santiago, Castelleta, um, does play for Pataborn and the Bundesliga, um, was key for them in their promotion bid to get up to the Bundesliga last season and, and there's white taboondas leaguea. Um, and now, uh, and now he's in the, he's in the, he's in the big show and he is starting every week for Pataborn. Um, I, I, I, I can't lie, I have not watched him play, but all descriptions for me. It's just typical Bundesliga jobber. Who, who's the dude from, uh, who's a douseldorf? Oh, man, uh, geez, I'm blanking, but I, I love that guy. The guy who kept yo-yoing with him. He, he, he, he, he had a Latin, he has a Latin kind of name too, if I remember for him. Uh, um, Morales, right? Alfredo? Morales. Yeah. Morales. Alfredo? I think so. Yeah. He, it's a, it's a long lineage. It's a long lineage at this point of guys that's like, oh, he's playing in the Bundesliga. Then you come in and it's like, oh, yeah. You, you're, you're just there to kind of run around and lift some weights and look good coming off the bus kind of thing. But look, I'm, I'm gonna check in on them soon. I have not yet. I can't lie. But, but, but I'm gonna check in and see if there's something there. We could always use a little bit of steel. Sometimes, um, you know what? I guess I left out eight Morales in here. Like you said, Greg, eight of Morales not moving the needle for you. Um, but Greg, Greg, let me tell you something. Audrey Mimetti, who came out in the midweek in that game that I referenced early when I was watching Justin Chey, he came out in the 33rd minute with what seemed to be an injury and he started this weekend. So it wasn't that much, that much of an injury. Bring him down, bring him down because I'm telling you what this, Audrey Mimetti, that's a floor razor for me. That's a floor razor. His ability and build up his ability. He's a sixth, Greg, who is, he's a, he's a build up general. And then also he's showing a lot in the final third as well. Like he has some, he has some ingenuity, some creativity in the final third. Uh, when he, when he does find himself there and has shown himself to be more than capable playing as a single pivot under Michael Bradley of facilitating, you know, in a vicious, expansive possession-based team. So Audrey, get him in there. So he's, he's, again, one of those callups that adds to the fun. You call him up because he does things that we don't have players in our pool that, that do those things. Uh, we don't know that he'll be able to do them at that level. And I think part of, you know, spending time with the national team is knowing that getting excited about these players doesn't mean you're saying he's got it. He's the guy. It's saying he might be. And if he is, it's going to be awesome. And why not have him in? That's right. That's right. And Greg, you know, I don't have that many. I was going to make a joke about this being. This is MLS 4.0 Greg, you know, if they're performing at MLS now, then, then they got it, damn it. You know, uh, uh, all right. So that's the midfield. Well, what, so what will we do? Right? No, West McKinney. Mollican Tyler are going to be there. Again, in the last Patroteino is literally just like, no, we punt, we punt this, we know for the World Cup guys. And they just, they just don't need to be here. They got the, they got the time off. I don't, I don't see why he would do that. Uh, then, then, yeah, Mollican Tyler are going to be there. I got to assume the Sebastian or Raldon would be there. I got to assume Reina is going to be there. Um, and so then, I mean, I don't know, he's got spots to play with. So if he's, if he's, if everything is good and forgiven with Eunice Musa, then he's got to be there too. And then you still can bring in a testament in a Mamedi, I feel like, or a Johnny in a Mamedi. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, as much as I'm a troubadour, I am totally fine. Leaving, leaving Tanner, leaving Tanner Leon for Ajima Metty. Ajima Metty has jumped to the top of my priority list for this window, along with a couple of the kids. But so, and I would say we could put, we could put Eunice for sure. I mean, we, we noticed, we can put Eunice in and we will still be on our path to pursuing pot one. And I'm willing to bet we could put, we could put Audrey in as well. And that's where you're at. I love it. I think so. I would like to see him against Mexico or Canada. Um, if, if he accepts a call up, you know, this is, we got some doughnut panic with us in Albania. Um, onto the attackers, incumbents. We got Flow Bologn, Timothy Wea, Alejandro Zendejas, Rico Peppy, Ozzy Wright, who is hurt. Um, Brendan Aronson and Christian Policicic of Christian, play 45 against Lazio, look good. Everything should be fine there. But I guess it still is kind of a question whether or not we bring up or not. Yeah, whether he needs that, whether that's what's best for his ramp up to, to full speed and in full availability. Uh, I'm kind of skeptical. Again, I feel like Pachatino has been the coach who's aired on the side of, uh, leave injured guys be. Um, so I feel like, I feel like Policic is, I don't know, I'm not, I'm not in my hopes as hopes up that I'll be there. And if Policic's not there and Bologn's not there, uh, our attack, our attack is going to need some new fog. Uh, so, so that's when you, we just put in the sealant razors, the theoretical sealing razor, you know, Jack McGlenn, can you curl one in from 30? Uh, you know, et cetera. Uh, new blood, of course, the superstar in the making that went to cry on him too early. Once again, get the eye of the barbecue king. Uh, Kevin Sullivan. Um, Greg, Greg, what have you seen from Kevin? Uh, I've, I mean, I've watched this highlight reel and I'm really glad that he's got a highlight reel. Like it's, it's a really good, it's a really good thing when every time you go out there, you're, you're putting up a highlight reel. Like it's not like we were like, I'll remember this goalie scored in, uh, in the U 20s or like having to go dial back to, you know, a month ago and just replay that one over and over again. We've done this so long for so many people. It was like, you know, when Tim Weil was struggling for time and Leo, I'm like, I remember Nigeria though. Nigeria in the U 20 world. Like having to do it against grownups and he just, he, he, he will do it again the next time you play. So, uh, that's really good. Um, it is still a small sample size, but he's a baby and to be doing what he's doing as a baby, uh, with that sample size is still, it's still what you call up for a window like this. I don't think there's any, I don't think there's any way like around, I think you definitely call it up. Yeah. And I was, um, after I released Clip Notes last night, I went back and watched it as I used to do. I just like go go through and watch it once to see how my music is mixed and just to watch it. It's just to watch the highlights and stuff. And I thought about writing this all the way out, but listener, if you go through and watch these Clip Notes from this past week, this man, Kevin, it's like, he brings the, the something different. You know, when we all going through this Diego Luna psychosis, not, not we all, when, when y'all were going through that Diego Luna psychosis, um, you know, the, the, the things that I kind of push back on always about, you know, he brings a different flavor. He's a street baller and all these different types of things. It would, when you actually looked at him on the field, it kind of looked like a regular just kind of attacking soccer player trying to, it, Kevin is on a different level. Like in this game that he just played against San Diego FC, he, okay, we, we got the goal. He scored, he scored a goal off a quarterback heel, right in the box. He also took a, he also took a snapshot with the outside of his butt boot on his left foot from the right side of the box just because he felt like it from, from kind of the top of the box, the corner, just because he felt like it. He also, from the right side, served across and with the outs, he's on the left side, left wing, served across him with the outside of his left boot to try to fade it enough to where it could get to an attacker that's kind of has more depth from the goal, like further away from the goal than him. He, he kind of, he did like a little rainbow on the sideline to get by somebody on, on the touch line. He, it's like the amount of flicks and tricks and stuff that he is trying to do on a daily bit. Like there was a, he got a short hop pass from somebody kind of in the midfield and he just takes it and takes his input and catches it right off the short hop and dinks it over a defender to Frankie Westfield who's on the touch line. It's like that he is having a damn good time. Every time he's stepping on the soccer pitch, and it's just like, I was watching that, obviously I put it together, but rewatching it again. And it's just like, man, this dude is much watch TV. It's not just because he is good and effective. He is having as much fun on a soccer pitch right now as like anybody, anybody in the world that you could just turn on and see. Like, you know, this is, you could cut it up. You would think it's Ronald Dean. Of course, he doesn't have like the maizey runs, you know, the crazy close control stuff, but you see the stuff he's doing, man. It is, I'm in awe. And Ronald, you know, you know, jumps in as a baby and he's doing it for Barcelona. Right. And Gavin's doing it for Philly. But, you know, when you're talking about having this much fun, the guy we left off of our combat list because he doesn't fit in any position anymore is Sergino Desk. And because what is he? He's just fun. He's just a fun player. And that's what I think of is like, when you have somebody trying all that stuff, if he's on the field with like a Sergino Desk, for friendly windows, like for my money, like, that's what that's what I'm after. I want that in a friendly. I want it to look like, you know, even when we were kind of ineffectively trying to clown people against Australia and the World Cup, like, that was, that was fun. That's entertaining. There might not be, we might not be carving him up over and over and getting to the goal. But you can just tell there's something about the way that the guys are playing in that sense. And I think that's, I think that's where Kevin was going to add. Not just like kind of be like, oh, he could fit in here. He could add and actually help create that environment where guys are starting to do that stuff. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, well, I mean, when you put them, when you put them on the theoretical fun side, which is anywhere that Sergino Desk operates, basically, we've seen it, we've seen it exist within without Timway of West McKinney, etc. Anywhere Sergino is, that's a fun side. Like, it's because the dudes on Philly don't necessarily, they're not marching to the same beat of the drum that Kevin is. Like, they're good soccer players. Like, they're able to get on the end of whatever Kevin's trying to do and they're able to, you know, play the little one, two's and facilitate with them. But it's not like to the level that it's going to be when it's Kevin and Sergino Desk just absolutely cut because then it will be clowned. Like, it doesn't matter who it's against at this point. I think he's going to be able to pull out. Because first of all, he's just willing to try it. He's just willing to try it. Any and everything. And yeah, it's just the more the more I see it, the more I spend time watching them play, and the more you spend time watching the other soccer, it's like, there's not a lot of dudes doing this stuff. So, Kevin, let's assume immediately, because we're going to have some stuff to talk about growing the game. Kevin's all right. Let's move on. Uh, Cole Campbell. Doing his thing at Elvarsburg. Uh, Zavier Gozo. Crystal Palace. Obviously, uh, Julian Hall, New York Red Bulls, Justin Ellis of Orlando City, Peyton Miller of the new of the New England revolution and uh, Jack McLean, Stoke City. Uh, anybody outside of the other than uh, Kevin Gray. So, any of anyone would be okay, especially, you know, if, if we, if we're light ball again, if we're not bringing pool sick, McHenry has been more of an attacker for the US. So, if he's not there, um, we've got, we've got starting spots that we could fill with, you know, some of the players who we already know about. Uh, and then the, the minutes after those guys could be, could be taken by any of these guys. Uh, you know, like, you're just, you're, you're battling Ali's and Dejas, who's also been her. I don't, I doubt he'd, he'd make it either. Uh, Brenda, Brenda could, I mean, he hasn't been in the wilderness. He's playing a little, he's got like 200 minutes in the league, uh, for Leeds. I don't think he's, I think he has taken one shot and I think he's created one shot for teammate. Um, yeah. So he's, his, his, his attacking hasn't been like spectacular. And it's not ever been like his outside of, sort of outside the peak Brenda systems. Yeah. I'm basically saying Brenda's a system guy. It's basically what I'm going to say. He, uh, he writes up a lot of numbers as a system guy. Uh, and he, he, he's a decent fit for that system, but he's even getting forced out of his own system. So, uh, I, I think there's minutes, there's minutes you can, you can give to some of these kids. Um, but again, no urgency and other than Kevin, none of them are like, oh, this guy's going to, this guy's going to blow everything away. Um, so it goes up on there. So, so out of this list, uh, people that, that are above the pot one line, essentially, people that, that I think we can throw in and we are not sacrificing it. Kevin, for sure. Um, Cole Campbell, I got time, uh, the speed, right? You just wanted, you just wanted to run the, the speed and there's just, there's a little bit more than the speed, man. He has some, he got some stuff to him. He, he wrote, he wrote it up in McConnell this weekend. Um, on the touch line, and it wasn't speed related necessarily. It wasn't pure straight line speed, but he got the ball on the wing. Um, and, you know, it, it, it was close control. It was his ability to start stop that got him. I mean, he absolutely dusted Dale up in McConnell to the point of where when Cole got to the spot in the box where he took the curling attempt, like, he did not have a play on the ball. He was beat that bit. You know, that, there were, he could not make a sliding challenge to try and deflect the shot or anything. Like Cole Campbell had a clear shot on goal because he roasted them to that point. Um, so that impresses, like you combine that with the pure raw speed. Yeah. Which he showed the, I don't know if he caught his disallow goal, Greg. Mr, he had a, he had a disallow goal this weekend. He gets by our music where he just, I mean, he turned on the burners. And once again, it was up in McConnell and just, he's probably started about three yards behind him. And he just had a straight line run to collect the ball and shoot. It was, it was discussing that, like, there was only ever going to be one runner in that race. Well, that's why that's that speed alone, not alone. But like you said, the fact that he's, he's good. And as that speed makes him a really safe call up in my mind, like, because it is sort of that floor. It's kind of like what I thought of Jedi back in 2018, 19, like, he gives you this, you know, this will be a problem that teams will have to deal with. Even if it's not super, super clean, once he's got the ball, like, this is, this is an issue. Uh, and, and you have to sort of be above the Cape, California threshold of, like, how dangerous you are with it. Uh, but, like, if you've got, if you've got, if you're above, you know, certain level, uh, and you bring that level of threat, uh, you're a safe call up for some friendly windows. You're not, you're not hurting the pot one, pot one business. It's like, it's like Elizabeth Thompson when she was 17. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Um, and, and, and I'm a throw, you know what, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna leave it there. I'm a fan of Justin Ellis, fan of Julian Hall. Gozo, I'm still, I still need to figure out some more about Xavier Gozo. But, uh, but if he's on the roster, and it's, yeah, one one against, against Peru, and we're in the 70th minute, throw them on. If you saw Gozo going up to the liner, you saw Brennan there and going, are you like, are you like, hey, what are you doing throwing Gozo out there? We're not gonna get pot one. You got it. Come on, Posh. Like get Brenda, get Brenda up and moving so we can get our, we, our goal. Stop getting around. We need our goal. Fair. And it'll be so mad right now. It's a, it, there is, there is a lower threshold here. So yeah, we, we do got some spots and some minutes to play with for sure. Um, I still got time for 10 way on the right course. But I look other than that. Yeah. Yeah. You know what, you put it like that, Greg. Any of these dudes will be fine. Any of these dudes will be fine. Um, even the Glenn has that like, again, it just has a totally different thing that he brings. Uh-huh. Where for, for friendly wind. I'm like, all right, this will be, this will be something. And we've seen it. I mean, against a, uh, against the team that we will have to pass to get pot one. I don't know if we'll have to pass them, but a team will, we will be competing with for pot one. Turkey. Turkey. You know, he did this thing. Got a curler. And that's the thing. You know, he's talking about ceiling. It's like, yeah, Jack McLean can, can do that. The curler, you know, uh, as we, you can always get that off to say nothing of the, the floor performances that you'll get from week to week. But anyway, that's the attackers. We have covered all the position groups. roster comes out Thursday. And, uh, I guess we'll see. Greg, any final words? I can't wait. Like, it's been a, it's been a long time. It feels like the World Cup ended a long time ago. The women haven't been playing either. Like we need, we need a roster. Yeah, let's reset the discourse. Let's get it up and going. Um, the games are great too, but the roster release is the, this is a real one. Right. It, yes. And, and, and especially as so many youngsters have started to stamp their ground truly in MLS. And they truly, a lot of them look truly viable as, um, potential difference makers on this team. So, prevents. That's Greg. We'll see you.