Episode 137: Tutul Rahman on the USL-MLS transfer market disconnect

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tutul (@tutulismyname) walks us through the mechanics of why it’s difficult for an MLS team to pick up a USL prospect like Jose Gallegos or Jonathan Gomez. He also talked about why FC Dallas has gone from “play your kids” to “play your 32-year-old Liga MX veterans” in the span of 12 months, and how MLS front office desire for parity gets in the way of talent development.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velazquez and
0:06.6	Des Moines. We talk about US men's soccer. Thanks for downloading this episode of Scuff. Our guest today is Toodle Raman,
0:21.6	an indispensable voice in American soccer.
0:24.0	By day, he's a brand manager for a big company that you've probably heard of, but he's written about soccer for years
0:30.6	and he's produced a couple of podcasts, 25 stories that made
0:33.7	MLS is on all the platforms and he's working on something new, I believe, which we
0:38.9	will discuss later. Anyway, few people are as sharp on the mechanics of MLS roster building as Toodle is,
0:46.6	which is kind of the key topic today. So thank you for making time for us. How are you doing?
0:51.8	Good man, this is a dream coming true for me.
0:54.0	Thank you for having.
0:55.0	Seriously, yeah, thank you for having me.
0:58.0	Greg, how are you doing?
0:59.0	I'm good. If you haven't seen it yet, make sure you find Tootles a compilation of major goal score,
1:06.4	goals scored in major games by US men's national team players where he really did a
1:11.9	great job of cutting through sort of the stat padding that might go on in some of the
1:17.8	some of the Kankakaf matches against Minnows and really like focused on who scores for the US
1:24.0	fans national team in games that quote unquote matter. Yeah, key takeaway there
1:29.3	was is Linn and Donovan was really good. That was a labor of love for sure.
1:35.0	Right.
1:36.0	Right.
1:37.0	So last week, Matt Hartman and I discussed several USL prospects,
1:44.1	and we posed a lot of questions about the pathway
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