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Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Episode 46: Preseason player pool worst case scenarios, revisited

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

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

4.7921 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In August, we recorded a catalog of worst case scenarios for USMNT players abroad in the first half of the European season. This week we check in on those (a disconcerting number came true). Then we discuss Ledezma’s pending move to PSV, the Champions League draw, and Dave Sarachan’s new job.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.1

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. Back in August we recorded an episode that was the Synix Guide to the 2018-2019 season for US men's national team

0:26.1

players. We talked about worst-case scenarios for them. Some of them were kind of funny and

0:32.0

most of them were pretty realistic, at least we thought. So we're going to revisit those scenarios for several players and see how accurate we were. So without further ado, Greg, let's start with Christian Pulisic,

0:46.6

our Lord and Savior, Christian

0:51.0

Pulisic.

0:50.0

All right, Christian Pulisick, back in August,

0:53.1

we kind of pegged the worst case scenario as him,

0:57.4

I mean, there were rumors flying around at him,

0:59.0

just like there are now.

1:00.9

We kind of pegged the worst case scenario

1:02.3

as him making that $100 million move to

1:04.7

Rail Madrid being buried on their on their depth chart and then making a January

1:10.2

move over to say a middling EPL team like Borne myth at a massive discount.

1:19.0

Where did where did Poolstick actually land?

1:22.0

So it wasn't that, none of that happened obviously, but I think sort of our, when we took our tongues

1:28.0

out of our cheeks and gave the realistic worst case scenario, I think it was just he struggles gets relegated

1:35.6

to being a 20 minute sub for B. B. B. B. And then they dump him in January to

1:40.7

Bournemouth for 12 million.

1:44.1

Again, the second part of that hasn't happened.

1:47.0

The first part sort of has happened,

1:49.6

at least in the Bundislega,

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