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City and Chelsea were the two said to have joined last minute. Neither of them need it like the others, wouldn't be shocked if they're the first to give in.

A big part of this seems to be their assumptions about what fans abroad/younger fans want without doing any research to figure out if they're correct and if this risk is worth it. After covid, I don't know how possible it is for media companies to pay the money for tv rights their expecting. It's certainly not going to happen here.

It doesn't even get Americans excited anymore. Attendance drops every year, no one is consistently paying $100 to watch friendlies.

Fair play to the leagues and FA for stepping up. Thought they'd finally give in.

Incredible

Well done steve

a crown prince every major western country bows to and the UK PM couldn't even get our takeover approved. what the fuck man

Well, weird.

Think Perch could've been a useful utility player off the bench in a Europa League campaign, but obviously that's not he we used him and we saw way too much of him. Also even if Riviere made one appearance it would've been too much. Colback Ryan and Steven Taylor Obertan etc.

Going to extend the TAA/England discourse for another week.

listened to about half of it after finding it and had the same feeling. It's physically painful.

For the kickoff of our 2-1 win against Arsenal at SJP a few years ago Arlo White for NBC did the most overwrought, painful Game of Thrones analogy possible. Went on for about a full minute, maybe longer. I think they took the youtube video down, but I still think about it. Edit: Nvm it was our 3-2 loss to Liverpool, the other game I went to which caused the confusion. Here it is, definitely Arlo White and not Peter Drury, too

It looks like Orlando can recall him whenever so not sure if they plan to do that by opening day. Kind of a weird situation. Can't remember a young MLS player going on loan in Europe and succeeding like this.

Dike with a brace for Barnsley

Always loved the villa

It honestly feels like best case scenario considering how shit it could've been.

Barring some sort of worldwide pandemic lasting a decade or US Soccer being outed as a KKK religious sect, this team is going to be incredible.

I actually already did Just sent him the recent Merson one but he didn't respond, naturally. I don't even listen to the pod that much anymore but it came on after something else ended and I decided to to listen to what they had to say about us. Obviously totally pointless.

I know he wont get sacked, but this being as bad as it is makes me hope there's a chance.

Really? They supposedly rejected offers above 10m from "top six" Premier League clubs according to the BBC.

Just on loan with them so it's up to Orlando what happens with him. Would love to see that though.

Haven't had a chance to see much of him outside of highlights, but he's a unit for sure. Hope he gets a good move this summer.

I'm sure if we had made the last WC Pulisic would have a similar name recognition as Dempsey and Donovan. He will soon enough anyway

Yunus Musah chose us over England, Italy, and Ghana (mostly England). Pretty huge get, seems like more of a CM down the line, which pretty much means when all healthy one of Pulsiic, Reyna, Adama, McKennie, Musah, or Aaronson is missing out. There's probably a bunch more in the mix, too. We might be onto something.

Subbing your right backs at this point was the death knell. Teams that stay up don't do that.