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It seemed like a good portion of the team wanted to leave this summer — many of the defenders and forwards. Even the captain wanted to leave. The product on the field was boring. TT was not a good people manager. He didn’t have a good working relationship with his bosses. I don’t care how smart you are, you won’t survive the culmination of all these problems.

This is not on the players. It’s the system. They’ve given up on this manager. The well is poisoned.

The shut it off because it’s too painful to comment.

Nah. We’ve seen this too many times before regardless of the selection. Has that forward line received any service? I see players making runs. Nothing but back passes and slowing play down. Everything builds up through the wingbacks. It’s so predictable and damned slow. Just count the number of one-touch passes that half.

#FreePuli. 😃 I can understand the concerns of both the player and the team. He probably doesn’t have a great relationship with the manager and doesn’t fit the system that well. He’s a confidence player and needs a run of games to build a relationship with new teammates. He probably won’t get that unless someone gets injured. The team can’t clear out most of the attacking squad until replacements are found and that may not happen this window. He should get a reasonable amount of playing time this fall with CL and WC games coming. Perhaps his future will be settled in January.

HC telling us what he thinks about Puli again. Sigh. We know what you think after weekly posts on the player so why bother? It’s borderline illness Take a deep breath, get out and enjoy the world At least the game commentators and analysts, you know — actual pros — clearly noted the energy level injected by the subs. Apparently my lying eyes saw it as well.

And this is why TT wants new defenders.

I thought overall he looked good today playing more central. If that Werner goal counted he would have been MOTM for me. First real game in a month. He and Lukaku combine well.

The US has many young players under 25 playing across all the major leagues in Europe today — several on CL teams. Pulisic is probably the highest profile at the moment, but there are others that may have a higher ceiling. In short, the future of USMT is not dependent on Pulisic being the man at Chelsea. He’s just a talented player who’s a little ahead of other talented youngsters in their career progression.

Kepa FFS

Goalie vs goalie.

Come on Kepa.

Pens. It had to be.

Werner carries the yellow flag in his pocket.

Incredible stuff here.