Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. Hello,

Greg, how are you? I'm good, Pells. I feel like the national team is in is getting back into full swing. Plenty of news in the last week or so and then the Bundesliga kicks off again this weekend so we're out of that sort of dead zone of the winter.

Yeah, it's back on and I feel like there's a lot of exciting things happening with the

player pool too which we will try to get into. We're gonna run through some news

because there's been a lot of it in the past couple

weeks and then Greg on the second half of the episode has created a set of categories as is his

special skill for what we're calling the need a move crew or we are two weeks into the

transfer window and I think I think only one player has officially moved and even

that is a pre-contract for for move in the summer.

Yeah, so it's been slow but we could really use a couple of guys could really use it to

pick up. Yep, yep. So yeah we we need that mid-season rundown, but first let's go with the big news of the day.

Well, it's not the news of the day, it's the news of the day, it's the news the last four days.

Brian McBride is the new general manager of the

U.S. men's national team and he had a conference call with reporters earlier

today. Greg, what do you give me your high-level thoughts. I feel like what most people's high-level

thoughts are is that we just have no idea what that will be. It's a lot like

when Ernie was hired to be the GM and it was like, well I guess we have no idea if he'll do a good job or not,

it's just going to be a wait and see thing.

But even then Ernie actually had some experience working in the front office with Philadelphia.

McBride hasn't really had any of that experience.

He's been a tremendous player for the U.S. national team.

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