Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest round of listener questions.

On this episode, we're seeing how close Christian Pulisic is to the Ballondeur.

We're swapping Liverpool, round Madrid's managers.

We're looking at Asterville's title credentials and much, much, much more.

My name's Ryan Bailey.

Joining me today is Mr. Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Ryan Bailey. With that list of questions in mind, is this the episode that could have the most inflammatory title possible? Like, I feel like it's up there in terms of how quickly we could annoy sizable sections of the internet. Is Christian Blissick going to win the Ballandor? There it is. Yeah. Would Arna Slot have have like Real Madrid playing better than Chavi Alonzo? That is probably going to annoy plenty of people. And then probably ranking important moments in U.S. soccer history is probably going to annoy at least a few people as well. Maybe so.

I think we should call this episode Christian Pulsick, Ballondor, Sidney, Joe Rogan, and see how we do on the SEO. What do you think? No cut in the park, I think. I'm not loving where that algorithm is going to take us based on recent coverage of both Sidney, and Joe Rogan. Fair, fair point. All right,

Graham, Roslin, hello, how are you?

Hello, Ryan Bailey. How are Bailey. Have you started the Charlotte FC crowd funder to sign Mohammed Sala? Yeah, I heard Joe and Jeff and Taylor talking about. Sala to MLS. That's another one of those sort of annoying talking point titles that we could have done yesterday. Have you started the crowd funder yet? Yeah, a few million short, unfortunately. We need some, we need Cushner

Salty back in. Sominti's good for it. Sirminti's good for it. That's true. That's true.

Yeah. Has anyone shot his pockets? Yeah. What's in those pockets? Do we want to know?

Does a spherical mascot have pockets? Let's think about that. He should. I mean, if Cole Palmer doesn't, I can't see why a ball with a crown would, frankly. So where's he going to tuck the trophy when he wins it for best mascot? Well, we'll have to see. Oh, boy. Joe Lowry. Hello, how are you? Hey, I'm great. I don't know why, but Serminti feels like the kind of guy that would walk around with chicken nuggets in his pockets, you know? Like, just like, he's sitting next to you and he pulls out a chicken nugget and just starts going for it. You know, everybody knows one of those people that brings nugs around everywhere in their pockets. I feel like he's one of them. Do we all know that? I do. I do. I do. It's just my six-year-old daughter.

Yeah.

So, in their pockets. I feel like he's one of them. Do we, do we all know that? Yeah, I do. I do. It's just my six-year-old daughter.

Yeah. Cerminti's got some six-year-old energy. His name's Serminti. Of course he's got chicken nuggets in his pockets, you know? Dude, I don't know which of the four of us is most likely to have a chicken nugget in their pocket. See? I mean, Ryan gets a Popeye's turkey.

Let's be real.

Graham is from the nation that only has fried things.

Joe is the one who knew about it. nugget in their pocket. See? I mean, Ryan gets a Popeye's turkey. Let's be real. Graham is from the nation that only has fried things.

Joe is the one who knew about it in the first place, and I have children and also a love of chicken nuggets.

I feel like the American here shouldn't be throwing stones to nations that fried things.

What's that fried pizza?

I mean, at least we've got some excellent chefs, Gordon Ramsey, you know, Heston Blumenthal.

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