Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. I'm your host, Taylor Rockwell. Daryl Grove is still not with me. He is in Boston at time of recording. But if you hear this when the show comes out, which is Thursday, show should be out Thursday morning. Daryl and I will be recording a listener question show Thursday afternoon, which should be

out Thursday evening.

If all goes to plan, we shall see.

But until then, making his return appearance on the Total Soccer show, it's a week of

return appearances.

Sam Tai was yesterday.

Today we've got Manuel Faith, newly of Transfermarked.com.

Manuel was previously with us to talk about the Bundesliga.

He is here with us today to talk about the Bundesliga.

We talk about the title race that is shaping up.

We talk about Americans in the Bundesliga, including Chris Richards, Giorreina, John Brooks,

Josh Sargent, Zach Stephan, Tyler Adams.

We also talk about some other clubs aside from the title contenders, including Fortuna Dusseldorf, Herzeg, Berlin, and Shalka. We don't go deep on Weston McKinney, but we still talk about Shalka. We also talk a little bit about the close of the January window and what Manuel's coverage was like on Deadline Day and how kind of absurd it can be at times. Lots of other great topics in there as well.

So I will stop with the introductions and instead say, joining me once again is our friend from

Germany slash Canada, I should say. It's Mr. Manuel, thank you so much for making a return

appearance. Yeah, thank you so much for having me back on the show. It was very well received your first appearance.

We talked a lot about the Bundesliga.

We're going to do the same thing this time.

But first, since last we spoke, you have a new gig.

Tell us about it and how it's going.

Yeah, so I'm the new lead for Transfer Market USA or running the English content for the US market the

official title title is area manager for transfer market those who don't know

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