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Hey, happy Thursday to you all. Welcome to football. America's shock of his love.

Hercules Gomez, coming in in style, has always heard, but more for this week.

It's right. It's, uh, what is it? Start of the season, right? Yeah.

In the video, so you're going to be there? I am going to be there.

Uh, Boston. Boston Legacy FC? That's what it was. Yes.

I was. Whoo! I got you. So glad I didn't say what I...

Whoo! I got you. Thank you.

Boston Legacy FC versus Gotham FC, 1230 PM Eastern on ABC, but I digress.

Let's get into what we're going to break down here on football,

America's with business casual, of course, coming up Mauricio Pogetino

and his comments on rumors outside of the US men's national team.

Also, no guy bangs in his US men's national team, a future.

A lot of future. We need a magic eight ball, especially when it comes to these

players that we're going to talk about and some injury updates.

It's been a rough week for pretty much all of the World Cup hosts.

But let's start with probably the worst one when it comes to the injury.

Luis Angel Malagone will not be going to the World Cup

after tearing his Achilles in America's conca-caf champions cup

win over the Phil Union Tuesday night.

America confirmed the injury and said, quote,

his recovery time will be determined by his progress.

And of course, after determining said injury has to go through surgery on the other side,

just heartbreaking. They're so close to the World Cup.

More bad news for the Mexican national team.

As concerns surround now, Marcel Ruiz, after suffering a knee injury in Toluca's

three-two loss to San Diego last night also in the conca-caf champions cup,

Ruiz will be evaluated tomorrow per Toluca and his availability for the World Cup

is still very much up in the air.

But just so much heartbreak on these players' faces,

we saw that as well.

It said, you know, this, who picked up a hamstring injury

in PSB's two-one win against AZ Alkmar on Saturday.

He was taken off the field in the 55th minute.

The pain was just written all over his face on his social media desk said, quote,

I'll do everything in my power to make sure that I'm coming back ace-up

on the right timing again.

So close to the World Cup.

It's never a good time to get injured,

but especially in March, just a few short months away from said tournament.

Alfonso Davis also picked up a hamstring injury, a strain to be exact.

In Bayern Munich's dominant six-one win over Atalanta, close to the 70th minute.

Now, Davis also looked to be in pain as he covered his face with a shirt

as he left the field.

This isn't Davis's first muscle injury.

This season and isn't confirmed to be out of the World Cup.

So a couple of situations very much up in the air.

I mean, confirmed with obviously Sunkel Malagone and we will, of course,

break that down.

But, Jack, when we see these injuries important for the U.S.

for Mexico, for Canada, the World Cup Post, which federation is impacted,

do you think the most by these injuries?

I think it's kind of an Alfonso Davis.

And you're right to point out that injuries are

while they're a part of the game.

They're a very tough part of the game, especially for players.

And one of the discussions you often hear, particularly from people outside of the game,

is with the work of coming up,

do players take it a little bit easy just to prevent this kind of circumstance?

As players, we know, from the time you decide to take it easy,

that's when you get injured.

That's when you have impact injuries, etc.

You have got to play this game 100%.

Otherwise, think things really do start to fall apart.

But then you see moments like these.

And they are always difficult to understand, to take, to navigate,

to your question, Christina.

But for me, of the injuries, Alfonso Davis and Canada,

we spoke about Alfonso Davis as an individual,

about as a player, how good he is.

As captain of this Canadian national team,

as the leader of that national team,

I just don't know how you replace him.

How you replace every facet of what he brings to Canadian football.

So if we are putting it on somehow,

judging us on a scale,

Alfonso Davis for me, the most impactful.

I mean, Shaq goes for the highest profile name,

and it's hard to argue that you go for the highest profile name,

and that should be a massive loss.

In its reality, you're losing a player that has been very important for Canada,

throughout the last five, six years.

Another reality is he hasn't quite been the same Alfonso Davis for Canada,

as he's been for Bayern Munich.

And thus so that this very exciting, attacking prospect,

Alfonso Davis, who at one point was the best,

or in the running, one of the best left-backs in the world,

Champions League winner,

wasn't considered exactly the best player in the Canadian pool,

or the most important player in the Canadian pool.

But certainly for Alfonso Davis,

for Jesse Marsh, and everybody has their own hospital,

this is a tough one.

Because that's a player that inspires a country.

That's a player that has scored the first goal, World Cup goal,

that your team has scored in a World Cup in its history.

This is a very important player, yes.

But if Alfonso Davis is not there,

you can't honestly say the best player in the team is missing.

You can't honestly say a piece we can't live without is missing.

Well, Mexico right now,

he read it the more that it hasn't played in the last seven games.

He's missed eight already, he's played 132 minutes.

When they talk about Mexico,

they're relying on a player whose 18-ager,

who's got five international caps,

because of how depleted the pool is, talent-wise.

And then you lose a player that many thought

would be the starting goalkeeper,

and if you didn't,

would start to compete for the starting job.

In Luis Anquel Malagón.

And that's not the window.

So with Luis Anquel Malagón at the window,

you're bringing back a 42-year-old memo

to the conversation.

And then now, the one true constant you had in the center midfield,

a guy who was growing into his position and into his own,

becoming a leader who was captain last night for Taluca,

Marcel Ruiz, your most confident two-way player,

goes down with a non-contact injury,

remains to be seen how serious it would be.

But it has to be Mexico,

because of the player pool.

I can go to the U.S. and say,

Sergio Desta, that's a tough loss.

It really is.

But they're in better shape when it comes to the pool,

the Mexico.

Canada, that's a tough loss.

Alfonso Davies,

it really is Alistair Johnson,

it really is Derek Cornelius,

Bonbito, they really is.

Maybe those players will get back on time.

Wait, enough on time.

I do believe so, the majority of them.

But their pool is way better than Mexico's.

This is the worst Mexican national team,

the worst pool that I've seen in my lifetime.

So it has to be Mexico.

Yeah, let's get into it then,

because you mentioned not only Malaguan,

which we know is out of the ones that we talked about,

is the only one truly confirmed to be out of the World Cup,

because of the nature of set injury,

of an Achilles tear.

Yes, pretty much what I've heard is

relearned how to walk when you tear your Achilles tear.

Eight months, you'll be out.

Yeah, minimum, at minimum.

You just mentioned Guillermo Choir.

Yeah.

Right?

And I know we talked about this throughout the week.

And this isn't the first time that he's come up

when Luis Anquel Malaguan was still healthy.

What happens next with the goalkeeper pool,

with the names that Javier Aira still has available?

I've got one of the best concavig goalkeepers

to my left right now.

And it's history of where he's played,

of what he's done for his national team.

And he's seen some very good Mexican goalkeepers,

a very good pool of Mexican goalkeepers.

I can confidently say this is the worst pool

of Mexican goalkeepers I've ever seen.

Long gone are the days when you had Ochoa,

Talavera, Jesús Corona.

Long gone are the days where you had El Cono Joperez.

Long gone are the days when you had Osvalo Sanchez,

Jorge Campos, Los Forríos.

You know, there's so many different names

I could throw out there.

And it's not just...

La vera?

Yeah.

You know, it's not just Mexico.

I could say the same thing about the U.S.

I really can.

And the Canadian goalkeepers right now,

this season, Major League Soccer,

have not been great either.

It is an abysmal pool,

which is why you're going back to the well

with a 42-year-old Guillermo Ochoa.

It is not good news that Javier Aguirre

is back for his third cycle,

third World Cup with Mexican national team.

It is not good news that Guillermo Ochoa

could possibly play his sixth World Cup.

That means you're not pushing the next generation.

And if you want more evidence to that,

look at Mexico and this World Cup

when they will have zero players

under the age of 25 years

with World Cup experience,

this isn't good news and you're going back to the well.

But it's necessary,

because you saw right there, Acevedo.

He's not going to have an opportunity

with the Mexican national team.

He's one of the most scored-on goalkeepers

in the United States.

You saw Tala Ranjel.

Tala Ranjel has had bad moments

with the Mexican national team.

Yes, some good moments.

Yes, but he's not been a guarantee.

He's had his moments just as of late

where he's given up silly goals.

Luis Anquel Malagón was in the same boat.

Right.

This is why you're going back to Guillermo Ochoa.

I mean, Guillermo Ochoa.

Yeah.

What do you think of his name being thrown in the mix now?

Even more so.

Well, I'm surprising,

but given where we are right now,

not so surprising.

And so let me quantify that.

We sat here maybe four months ago

and I said, you can't be going back to Ochoa.

You really cannot.

Mexico can't be calling on a 40-plus-year-old

to go into the World Cup.

So it would be Malagón.

That was the ball and end all.

I am not at all convinced by Ateveiro or Angelo,

at all convinced, at the work of level,

at the expectation that comes with being a host nation,

being Mexico and putting two of those together.

So somehow you find yourself back with an Ochoa

who's 42 years old.

So as I said, four months ago,

I said, you can't be going into the World Cup.

Ochoa is your goalkeeper.

Right now, I want to say the same thing,

but I don't see another option.

I just genuinely don't.

That's the, you can back me up here

and you will know the sentiment of the general Mexican public.

There's a large divide that are saying, that can't happen.

It is the other part of that divide that's saying,

oh, his best football is played every four years.

Sure.

It's World Cup is my mother's winner, South Africa.

Exactly because you can say, the guy's playing in Cyprus.

Well, the last World Cup he was playing somewhere

where he got relegated and the World Cup before that,

the same thing.

And if you ask foreign press, foreign fans

about Mexico, the World Cup, they're going to say two names.

They're probably going to say two names.

Chijarita won and oh yeah, Ochoa, Ochoa.

That's it because he comes out every four years.

So they're hoping that'll be the case, this go around.

It's hard to argue with the logic here

because of the lack of experience with the goalkeeping pool

that you have right now, that they wouldn't just fall back

on Guillermo Ochoa and hope he comes out again,

like he does every four years.

Yeah, and it's tough with what you said with Marcel Ruiz as well.

I mean, we know that he had been a regular

with the Mexican national team.

Again, not ruling him out for the World Cup.

We don't know anything yet.

We obviously hope that this is just a big scare here

for Marcel Ruiz because he was truly an essential part

there in the midfield, but her goal stick with you for this one.

I mean, what does this do to Mexico

and this potential absence?

Well, I'll tell you what it does.

It puts them on a alarm.

It puts them, you know, alarm bells are ringing

and puts them on notice.

If before you had doubts about who the right back would be,

who the second center back with Johan would be,

who the goalkeeper would be, who would be the other midfielder

in case Hilbert Amona wasn't there.

If Edson, Alabama, this would be the same Edson, Alabama,

this after this injury and how that would look,

of who would accompany Raúl Jimenez,

the one guy you knew that you can count on was Marcel Ruiz.

He's not there.

I happen to think like majority of fans,

and I would say a lot of pundits

that don't want to see a Charlie Rodriguez anymore,

that don't want to see a notable impenetra.

I think this firmly opens the door for no bad Vargas

to stop coming and maybe make a name for himself,

for an Alvaro Fidalgo to come in

and make a name for himself.

There is a chance in this next window

that you see one or both of the players there

invite for one of those central positions,

because Nomora, Noets and Alvares,

and now no Marcel Ruiz,

the starting core trio that you had pegged in

for this World Cup is not there.

Yeah, and that's tough.

Shaq, three months out of the World Cup.

I mean, as Lucas is talking there,

is the fan expectation,

what is the fan expectation around Mexico the World Cup?

No, I mean, just kind of give those injuries,

give them the struggles.

What are fans expecting or hoping for?

What are fans hoping for is a sexto partido,

which is the quinto partido,

because now it's the format.

Yeah, but that's not a necessarily realistic scenario

unless they win out in the group phase.

And their group, I do think is a winnable group,

but if you falter that first game against South Africa,

you need to get a result away from the altitude

in Guadalajara against South Korea,

and you saw what South Korea did to the US men's national team

and did to Mexico in their friendlies.

You see how dynamic they are,

you see how sunny still has it, he's still got it,

and then you got to play if you don't get a good result there,

all or nothing in the last game, which could be Denmark.

I don't think it's a realistic scenario for them,

they think it's an automatic,

but it is Mexico.

And we spoke about this, check,

the ultimate leveler is Stadio Stecca, the sun,

the pollution, the altitude.

I think they've got a good shot if they're healthy,

but this national team doesn't have the luxury

of missing their best pieces

and thinking they can just dog walk the group.

Yeah, let's get into the US men's national team,

what we just mentioned with it said you know this,

again, as he even said on his social media,

trying to come back as quickly as possible

because of what's coming up.

But with the ideal starting 11 with Serginio Dust out,

Herc, who could benefit the most from his absence?

Not my ideal starting 11, but who could benefit the most?

Well, it should be Freeman,

but Freeman's not been playing for Villarreal.

He's not gonna mention like three, four games.

He makes this move, which is to La Liga

and then I am there for it.

Like, do the move, become a better player,

but in making that move,

you gotta go back to the last time that he played a game

and that was last season.

Like a realistic 90 minutes.

So now you're hoping that he comes in March

and he can show Marisa Pochitino that it's not affected him,

that he's the same player, he's just as sharp,

just as confident, but he's got the most to gain here.

I don't think it'll go that way.

If I'm Marisa Pochitino, I'm thinking I can't rely

on somebody who's not playing right now

and I would go with somebody who is playing.

I would go with a Timothy Wea

as a right wingback, which I think realistically

takes Marisa Pochitino from having to make

a very difficult decision of leaving him out

to back into the lineup and a position

that he knows very well or even a Western McKinney

who's proven to be a very good player there.

It's no Serginio Desk, what Serginio Desk can offer you

on the ball going forward, very few on this pool can.

He solves a lot of problems for you,

but Timothy Wea is a very good player, different,

very good and so is the Western McKinney.

I think you can do something there,

but if I'm freeing and I'm thinking about opportunity

and miss because I'm not playing right now.

I think Timothy Wea is probably the closest

in terms of like the like where we're desks.

I'm not overly convinced about desks defensively.

I think he's great going forward.

And Timothy Wea gives you that on that right hand side.

He's played that position.

He's played further up.

He's been more advanced.

If you want to sit play as an attacking wingback,

which I think desks is,

maybe Serginio Desk, we'll say differently.

I think Timothy Wea is as good a like for like replacement

as you will find in the USPS pool.

Yeah, I mean, it's a difficult decision, right?

Because it's someone who's playing right now

or someone who has experience.

And right now, that only meets one of those criteria.

So it's a difficult decision when it really comes down to it

and those really big important moments

for the US men's national team, for Canada

and for the Mexican national team.

I'm at least glad that we're not head coaches.

I've said national teams for it.

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He's had ample opportunity and he has not done it.

He has not taken the chance to say, listen,

U.S. of a baby, America.

I'm here for America, huh?

He hasn't yet said that out loud.

Ali has a point.

And this is what Marty Supacetino said

about those rumors that he'll be coaching

else or something first time that we hear this by the way.

He said, all in good time and football,

the timing always dictates what happens.

Football will take you where it wants,

not where you want.

This is for El Chiringito,

which is not any other source when we're talking

about Real Madrid and La Liga in general.

But Shaq, well, as we welcome in our Jeff Carlyle,

Jeff, I'm going to start with Shaq here real quick

because the language is different.

Wade.

It's different.

It's odd.

What does football takes you where it wants, not where you want?

You are in this game for as long as you have

in Mauricio Pocetino so that you can make those decisions

as to where you want to go.

It's a less Mauricio Pocetino's trying to tell me

that he just happened to be the US men's national team coach

by happenstance.

That's what football decided that he played no part

in that decision.

And he will now play no part in what is to come next.

Again, I have been fairly critical of a lot of the things

that Mauricio Pocetino has said as US men's national team coach.

And this is a reason why.

I just find so much of it so unconvincing.

Like, what are you trying to see?

And no, it's not lost to me that two or three weeks ago,

he was having a go with Timothy Ware about ticket prices.

Now you're language, Real Madrid, and a move elsewhere.

Now you are nowhere near as firm by your measure.

Now we're near as committed as you are

asking Timothy Ware to be.

I just don't get it.

I really don't.

Jeff, do you get it?

Listen, I mean, from the moment Mauricio Pocetino was hired,

I don't think anyone really expected him

to last beyond the World Cup.

And I can remember talking to people in the US soccer

federation and they're saying, well,

maybe he can take on a different kind of role

after the World Cup is over.

But I don't really think that ever included

continuing to manage the team.

And so, but I think shock is right.

I think Pocetino could do more to kind of shut these things down

and just say something like to the effect

that I'm not going to talk about any of this stuff

until after the World Cup.

And I'm committed to the US.

And I'm going to give them my 100% focus.

It's World Cup or nothing.

And then, you know, you can say, after the World Cup,

then I'll start entertaining offers.

It kind of reminds me a little bit of Lupategui

when he was coach of Spain.

And then he was going to be linked with Real Madrid.

And then Spanish federation said no thanks.

So obviously, the US soccer federation

is not going to make that kind of decision.

But I do think the Pocetino could

be firmer and could be more direct and just say, listen,

I'm only thinking about the US men's national team right now.

We have a great opportunity going into this World Cup,

playing at home, a squad that, for the most part,

searching your test is probably the exception

that seems to be healing up at the right time.

You know, guys getting back on the field.

So, you know, I think Pocetino could do more

to kind of just put these rumors to rest, at least for the moment.

I mean, because everybody does know that he's probably

going to end up elsewhere.

But, you know, communicate now what your focus is

and how that is going to be directed at the US men's national team.

He likes the attention.

That's the reason he's not putting these rumors to rest.

That's the reason when they ask him about the Premier League.

He's talking and flirting about the Premier League.

He's talking about how much he misses spurs,

how much he misses the allure of the Premier League.

And it's no secret that in the United States,

our media, when we cover the game,

isn't like the English media.

It isn't like the Latin American media in Argentina,

in Brazil, in Mexico.

You can be whoever you want here,

and you're not going to be criticized in the same way.

How?

You don't even have to live in the country.

As Mady Pocetino does not live here.

He lives in Barcelona.

He misses the attention.

So when they ask him, he flirts.

It's no secret that Mady Pocetino

is not going to be with the US men's national team post-World Cup.

I know that, check knows that.

Chris, you know that, Jeff knows that.

The US men's national team players know that.

Maybe there are parts of the fan base that do not know that.

But he is out afterwards.

Regardless of what happens, regardless, he is out.

He doesn't want any part of the US program after 2026.

You can see he desperately misses the day-to-day of a team,

the day-to-day of a club,

the day-to-day of the attention that comes with

coaching somewhere where football is everything.

But you're criticizing players.

You're criticizing the press.

And Jeff has been at those press conference

when he criticizes and chastises the press.

If we really wanted to hold Mady Pocetino to the fire

as he desperately wants,

he would have been out a long time ago.

And that's a reality.

If we hold him to his words to the bar

that he has set as Shack has mentioned,

he would have already been gone.

But that's not this type of program.

So he's still here.

So anytime that there is a Mady Pocetino linked

to the Premier League or to a club like Rahm Madrid

or to any high-profile job,

Mady Pocetino is not going to shoot it down

and say, I'm not talking about it.

He's going to entertain it.

But here's my thinghood.

Why not shoot it down?

And this is the thing.

He enjoys it.

No, no, he can't.

So if Mady Pocetino

arguments he goes having conversations

quietly with Florentino Perez,

I have absolutely no idea who's running things at Spurs.

So I've no idea who talked to them.

I don't think they even know.

Exactly, nobody knows.

But anyway, so we'll go with Rahm Madrid

for our arguments here.

If he's having conversations quietly with Florentino Perez,

and Florentino Perez is saying,

Mauricio, I'm really interested.

I'd love for you to be our next manager,

come July August.

Would Mauricio Pocetino just coming out and say,

I couldn't care about anybody else.

I'm focusing on winning the World Cup.

And that's it.

We'll see you after that.

After we win the World Cup, we'll

I'll figure out what I'm doing next.

That's not going to put Florentino Perez off.

So unless he is still auditioning

or asking for attention,

flummer from a Florentino Perez,

or whoever's the kid man at Spurs.

Unless he's still auditioning for that attention from them,

I don't understand what he's doing.

Everybody for ball knows you walk into government

at the same time.

You can be playing for one club

and know that the manager is getting a bid

for you ready for you somewhere else.

We've all done it.

You do come out and talk about it,

but we've all been in that place.

I just don't understand why this.

I really don't.

I'll tell you why he doesn't shoot down

the Round Madrid rumours,

because they're too good to be true

for money to put you at the end.

I've already I mentioned this last week there.

It doesn't make sense.

It would have made sense.

Champions League runner up when he was head coaches first.

That would have made sense.

Maybe kind of after he fumbled

being the first PSG team not to win League 1

with PSG with those players,

not being able to manage that locker.

Maybe after PSG and the Clash of Heads,

he had the sporting director there over control.

It doesn't make sense for money to put you

at this time in his career with his pedigree right now.

Where it's at to be in the running for Round Madrid.

He doesn't shoot it down because it's too good to be true.

He wants his name to stay in the light.

Jeff, you can help me out here.

The English club, I believe it was Brentford maybe,

where his name came up.

He didn't shoot that down either.

When you don't shoot down a Brentford,

you're certainly not going to shoot down

a report about Round Madrid.

Oh boy.

Actually, I think he did shoot down Brentford.

I mean, I think the comments that I remember

had making, they were more forceful

than what's going on right now with Round Madrid.

And so I think, and that link never really made much sense.

So I think on that standpoint,

I don't think people took it seriously

in terms of putchotino ending up at a club like Brentford.

No disrespect to Brentford,

but it just didn't seem to be an appointment

that would be in alignment with what Brentford is about,

with what putchotino's about.

Again, it just didn't make much sense.

Certainly, Round Madrid is a team that,

or a club that I think putchotino

would very much like to be a part of.

And I can see Herc's point that he wants to keep

his name in the limelight.

He still wants it to be considered.

But I will say this.

Putchotino has constructed a castle around himself.

I mean, if you want to hire Marisa Putchotino,

you've got to get through his assistant, Paisley's Perez.

You've got to get through his attorney who starts looking

up this offer, looking at the kind of project

that's being put forward.

And then both of those guys give their blessing,

then Marisa Putchotino was brought into the room.

So I think an awful lot of work would have to be done.

And maybe that's being done right now, who knows.

But I do think that that kind of appointment

would be a long ways off.

But we'll have to wait and see what happens.

But I mean, for now, he needs to focus on the World Cup.

And he needs to focus on this window,

because it seems like every single window

that we've looked at for the past eight months,

we're thinking, OK, this is the time

that he's going to have his full team together.

And it seems like there's always some injuries that come up.

Or for some reason, West and McKinney's not available,

because Juventus changed managers.

I think this is the time where he's really

got to get this team together.

And not that they weren't pulling in the same direction

before, I think the team has looked a lot better

in the last couple of windows.

But he's got to get everybody together

and really full speed ahead towards getting prepared

for the World Cup, getting guys more familiar with each other,

and getting the tactics sorted out, all of that kind of stuff.

That needs to happen now in this particular current window

that's coming up.

And hopefully the US is at their peak when June comes around.

But the work has started.

It needs to continue in this particular window, I think.

Listen, I'll just leave it at this.

I don't blame Marisa Pochettino for not shooting down

these reports.

I mean, why would you want to make your name?

Why would you want to dim the light?

You know, if you know you're leaving after the World Cup,

you maybe want to keep something open.

And if it's raw Madrid, it's raw Madrid.

It's very difficult to turn that down.

Yeah, but there's a way to do that without it.

So leave it to us.

Just really quickly.

Yeah.

I don't blame Marisa Pochettino for not wanting

to turn that down or deny the reports.

Where's US soccer at all this?

Where's Matt Crocker?

Where are the people, you know, the powers that be there?

It's a valid question because what I thought

with all of this, too, is don't they prepare

if rumors start going around, hey, if you're asked this

and the press conferences would be the ideal answer?

I mean, we saw it halfway through the week,

even with Juliane Álvarez and his future

with Atlético de Madrid kind of saying,

well, I don't know, but maybe, yes, no, right?

Yeah, the simple answer, and we all know,

we're not born yesterday, also saying my focus right now,

he is with the US men's national team,

means that there's something else to it.

We're not playing devil's advocate.

It's just the way it is.

You guys saw it on the player side.

Jeffrey and I have seen it on the journalistic side of it.

So we're not saying it's that, but there is, I think,

a better way to handle it.

Language wise, that back to your point,

should have been prepared, and we don't know

if it was in Madrid, support, and Tino decided

something completely else.

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The key to this case, it's Brian.

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You want the truth?

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We had a killer amongst us.

Murder at the U. Listen now.

Well, we do want, we do know that Maurizio Pozzatino

would like to decide for Noah Kaye Banks

and his talent that he has at such a short age

with 19 years old.

He has the option to play for Germany.

He also has the option to play for the US men's national team.

Here is numbers with Augsburg, at least this season

in the Bundesliga, which 21 gains 19 of those

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Almost the 90 minutes his goals in assists as well.

And 86 clearances.

All right, here's what Noah Kaye Banks had to say

on deciding which national team he will play for.

I know there's a world cup coming up.

I don't want to set a deadline.

I want to take my time, decide calmly.

I have a long career ahead of me

so I don't want to make it dependent on a tournament.

This is per kicker.

But Jeff, we know you had an interesting conversation

with Nocee, I guess we're calling him.

For you, is this something, nothing, or everything?

I think it's more everything.

I mean, or I guess I would say something

kind of leaning towards everything.

Every time that Noah Kaye Banks talks about his time

with the US, it's in over the top positive terms.

He looks back fondly at the U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.

He said it was one of the big moments of his life playing

in a big stadium for the first time like that.

He talked about how much fun he had,

coming back to camps, seeing his friends again,

seeing guys that he played with.

He would have been on the U-20 team at a World Cup,

but Augsburg did not release him.

But Marco Mitrovich, he's the guy

who had initially scouted Banks for the US program.

He was very high on Banks.

Nothing but good things to say about him

in terms of the kind of person he is,

how he's improved his game over the years.

Gonzalo Sagaras, who coached with the U-17 set,

every camp that Banks came in during that time,

it was just a quantum leap of improvement,

with different skills.

Sometimes it was with his passing.

Sometimes it was with carrying the ball out of the back

on the dribble and beating guys that way.

And so obviously, in his time at Augsburg,

he's grown and developed his game even further.

But in terms of the US program,

he even talked about coming into the camp last September

and how welcoming everyone was.

He talked about some of the veteran players

like a Tim Ream, a Tim Wea Christian Policic,

just how well they treated him.

They included him in dinners and just tried to make sure

that he wasn't isolated or by himself.

I mean, they really tried to recruit him

and indoctrinate him into the program.

And this is following a pattern

that we've seen with previous dual nationals.

I mean, I can remember Yunus Musa

kind of had a similar path where he played in some friendlies.

Again, the guys were super friendly.

The coaching staff was very welcoming.

It's kind of a US men's national team playbook,

if you will, in terms of recruiting dual nationals.

Obviously, this situation is a little bit different.

When I talked to him, he only talked about playing

for the US, but at a round table later that day,

he said, yes, I have been in contact with Germany.

So I think that was kind of the first inkling

that this wasn't a done deal.

This wasn't gonna be just a textbook situation

of the US winning out at another dual national

that they were gonna have a fight on their hands.

So listen, I think the guy is in an impossible situation

because he has a foot in both countries.

There's obviously a lot about the US that he loves.

He sees his dad regularly, but he also grew up in Germany.

He grew up not only in German culture,

but a German footballing culture.

And there are some compelling reasons.

If he's got a chance with the German team to go that route,

but it's really, really difficult to try

to predict the future about what opportunities

are gonna come your way.

And I can understand him saying,

hey, I don't wanna make this decision based on one tournament,

but sometimes that one tournament is all you're going to get.

And so I think there is a case to be made

for striking while the iron is hot,

but he's got a tough decision to make.

I think another thing that's factoring into this

is that Banks is called in,

and he plays in one of these games at the end of this month.

That would set back his potential one time switch

to Germany's team by three years.

If I'm reading this FIFA statutes correctly

and believe me, sometimes I wish I had a lot of agree

when I'm reading these things.

It'd be a situation where he would be pushing out

his possible debut with Germany a few years into the future.

So there's that to think about as well.

And I think you can say, hey, there's nothing,

there's no skin off his back.

If he comes here, he plays, he's still eligible

to play for Germany.

There are some rules on the books

that kind of make it less of a cut and dry decision.

Yeah, it's a big decision,

it's a shock with such little time

and such a short age and 19 year old

having to make this big decision.

Yeah, and I think that's the thing here, because he's 19

and to just point out, yes, he should strike

while he's hot.

You also, there's value in backing yourself.

I'm thinking I'm 19, I continue to develop as I am.

Who knows where that could lead me

into in terms of not just club,

but maybe in demand for an international team.

Now, I see this every single time.

I was faced with a similar choice,

having been born in England,

but reason turned to be, I've only ever felt,

turned out into being on you.

And so when I was eventually called into the national team,

the decision for me was easy.

I also recognize it's a very personal decision

because I've seen people do go the other way.

For their own reasons.

I will never criticize somebody for whatever decision

they make, for whatever reason they make.

That's theirs.

I haven't walked a step in their shoes.

So I truly do sympathize with the position

that he may feel that he is in,

or feel that people are trying to put him in,

which is why, and then again, I credit what he said to Jeff

and where I disagree with Jeff slightly.

Let's now make this decision.

I'll take some time and I'll make this decision

on Mayune.

It's made to me, and Mayune, good time.

Okay, there's a workup coming up.

But if it's nothing, Maytime,

then that workup kind of becomes secondary.

Yeah, it's a very difficult thing to process

because in the eyes of most people,

if Noah Kaybanks is thinking about representing Germany

in their minds, well, then you don't feel American.

So you shouldn't be with us.

They don't understand how difficult

of a decision it could be, and it can be difficult

because in a young boy's mind,

and he's still very much a boy,

regardless of 19 years of age,

you're asking to make a choice

in many people eyes about identity,

and trying to figure out who you are at that age.

It's an impossible task, and it's case by case.

You cannot put every dual national in the same bunch.

What Noah Kayb lived in his journey

and how he feels and the opportunity he may have

of either a World Cup with the US,

or a World Cup with Germany, however,

distant that maybe for some people, it's his right.

It's his right as a dual national,

and his ability to represent the US men's national team

is his birthright.

Yeah.

Sometimes people get so just diluted

with the fact that this person isn't 100% in in my country,

so I don't want them, that type of mentality.

And there are a lot of countries in this world

that will recruit non-citizens in the US green card holders

to serve in the military,

but when it comes time to put on a uniform,

to play your sport, oh no, no, no, you better feel it.

You could defend me, whatever you want.

Join the military, but if you're going to play my sport,

you better feel it.

It's an impossible task.

It's a case by case,

and I know there are videos circulating

on the internet, a Noah Kayb Banks making comments

a while back about his dreams

to play for the US men's national team.

If you're a player who's not played first division football,

and you get a chance to go with a youth national team,

or your first full national team,

and they put a camera in your face.

Sometimes you say things because you're so excited.

And you're so young.

That's the world we live in,

where you say things sometimes that you can regret.

It doesn't make him a bad person,

and it doesn't make his choice wrong.

This is an individual case,

and I'm glad Shaka mentioned that,

because Shaka, you very much felt trinity,

and that's a great thing.

But if the choice was,

you have to represent England to play in the Premier League.

That's a choice that many would have said,

well, this may change something now.

So, as you say, that was...

What were you, Shaka? I'm sorry, how old were you

when you made that decision?

Well, I heard my first cap for the title

of the big international team at 29 years old.

That being said, to your point,

so the longest story is,

now we're going to go from a bit of a tangent.

When I started playing in England,

you were only allowed three non-UK nationalities,

in your squad.

I qualified,

having been born in England.

And the reason that it took me that long

to make my...

to make my debut, trying to be a national team,

is Jack Warner tried to court me into a national team

to play a friendly outside of a FIFA window.

And as I...

I need to get this move.

Premier League clubs were sniffing around.

I was like, I need to get this move.

Let me just get this move to the Premier League,

and then I'll come play for the national team.

But he insisted.

He insisted I come back to trying to be able to play a game,

November 19th, 1994,

five years after the USA beat us on November 19th,

to qualify for the World Cup.

Who celebrates not qualified for the World Cup?

I don't know.

So it wasn't falling.

It wasn't falling enough for a window.

So I would have had to leave my club.

And like, just let me get this move.

He insisted.

To put it nicely.

It was a bit of a falling out between the two of us.

And I never made my...

I didn't make my international debut for...

So yeah, so that'd been 94.

I didn't make my debut until 98.

Or five years later.

But then that...

I will also say,

I have kids who...

Born...

My daughters were born in England.

My son was born in the US.

They're also citizens of Toronto, Bigel.

My wife is from Toronto, Bigel.

And we do everything in our power to make our kids feel like.

Or to understand,

no recognize,

respect Toronto Bigel.

For what it is.

We do everything that we can.

So I say that in a personal...

Because I know, to your point,

how people kind of

want to twist everything.

Yes.

Even in playing for Toronto Bigel,

the amount of times people have said to me,

you're not really from Toronto Bigel.

You're born in England.

I think no one has two years old.

The amount of times people have said that to me.

So I...

There's a lot to this,

in short, that...

that Nookie Banks is going through,

that it's not...

You can't package.

It's up to the individual.

I don't allow anybody else to make that decision,

or dictate a timeline for it.

And I think at the end of the day,

because it's such a personal decision,

that there's no wrong decision.

There's no wrong decision.

I mean, they want to...

Do what you feel is right,

when you're comfortable and confident in.

Especially when you're 19,

and I think the way that he wants to take his time,

says a lot about his maturity

at this point in his career,

and that we're talking about him so much,

at only 19 years old,

also says a lot about his talent

in his future as a professional soccer player.

Jeff, thank you so much for hanging out

with us on Football America,

as we appreciate your time as always.

Anytime.

What I remind you, what's coming up this weekend

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and also, if you want to hear the full interview

with Noah Kai-Banks and Jeff Carlisle,

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Alright, let's take it to some more World Cup talk

because this is one of the biggest question marks.

Will Neymar be on Brazil's roster?

He has had quite the injury history

and this is just recently,

so many in 2025,

the most recent one being another muscular injury

that he had in 2026.

And he had a lot to say

when it came to his future with Brazil.

He did miss the last match with Santos, by the way.

He said,

since many people are creating theories

about what is happening to me,

nothing is happening.

To play injured,

as they said last year,

I am wrong.

If I only think about myself,

I am wrong.

If I take it easy, I am wrong.

If I play with pain

or something that could aggravate it,

I am wrong.

It's complicated, huh?

It's very difficult to get it right, man.

Very difficult.

And continues on, very difficult to please everyone.

What surprises me the most,

I mean, it doesn't surprise me.

It's the people,

these people who seem to be by my side every day

and start making up stories,

saying this,

as if it were the greatest truth in the world,

as if they were the owners of reason.

It's very complicated to me.

My goodness,

I have to be the patience to put,

to adapt the patience,

to put up with you.

I mean,

he said a lot,

but at the same time,

didn't say much here.

Oh, no.

I think he said what he wanted to say.

Listen,

the fact that Namar is 34 years of age,

excuse me,

all-time leading goalscorer

for the Brazilian national team

has done so much with this career.

And still gets worked up

about what people are saying about him.

Tells me he desperately cares about playing in this world cup.

He desperately cares about how he wants to go out,

about his legacy.

And if I'm a Brazilian fan,

that's what I want to hear,

but I also want to see it on the field.

Rodrigo just tore his ACL.

Okay?

Garland Chalote just called him up.

Okay, or excuse me.

Garland Chalote was going to go see him play

in a game that he couldn't play.

The reports are he would be called up.

He's back in the good graces,

if you will,

of a national team that desperately needs a creative spark,

three months out from a world cup.

This is the Namar I want to see.

An angry Namar would something to prove a chip on his shoulder

and willing to put in the work.

But it starts with health.

And it ends with health with Namar.

Again, another carnival,

another Namar sister's birthday,

another game that he's going to be missing from.

Those could be circumstantial,

but at some point, if you're a Namar,

you've got to be on the field.

So, Chalote, you could be on the field during the world cup.

I think that's the thing for me.

I need to see Namar on the park consistently

and contributing consistently.

That's the be all and the year and all here for Namar.

I'm not a fan of the statement that he put out.

As a global superstar,

that's part of the course.

People are going to talk about you one way or the other.

You have to know what's best for you.

To this statement, you have to be selfish.

Certainly when it comes to your health,

especially when it comes to your health,

you have to be selfish.

You cannot take on what somebody is saying

or what some journalists may have written

or somebody said on a podcast.

You have to do what's best for you.

Because in this game,

all that matters is your performances on the park.

You get yourself fit.

You get yourself playing well.

You score goals.

You contribute significantly.

What somebody had to say in a podcast,

back in March 12th,

does not matter.

One, Ayurveda.

And the surprising thing for me is

I thought Namar would have known that by now.

I thought the people around him

would have recognized that by now.

And insulated him from that

if his reactions continue to be

as emotional as these statements suggest.

I'm sorry.

There's a woe is me sentiment about Namar's message here.

It's difficult to be me.

That's because there are many people

who feel you have not fulfilled your potential.

Even though you're the all-time leading goalscord

the Brazilian National League,

not Romario, not Ronaldo.

It's Namar.

But you were in the era of Cristiano and Messi

and nobody's going to fault you

for not being the best player in the world during that era.

But many of us thought you could be.

And the fact that you took the money,

you went to Paris,

and then you took the money,

and you went to Saudi Arabia.

Many people see that as a stain in the legacy.

So I'm not with the victimization

that he's putting out there.

But he certainly has the talent

when fit to be a productive player

and help at some capacity for the Brazilian national team,

this Brazilian national team.

It's crazy that we're having the same conversation

with Namar as we've had since he was in Barcelona.

And since he was looking for that out,

and we know that the reason was because he didn't want

to be overshadowed by Eleonel Messi.

But any man who would have,

I don't even want to say put his head down,

but really put in the work

and the talent that we all know,

and showcases talent at the end of the day,

we would be talking about a historic Namar,

no brainer that he's going to be in the World Cup,

but with the Rodrigo injury.

Now, Jacques, obviously,

that kind of reinforces the possibility of seeing him there.

But if you're into it,

you're seeing this pattern again,

because we know that muscular injuries really say a lot

about your lack of work and recovery.

Don't say that that's the case for every player,

but for a Namar in particular,

and the timing is always the same.

Yeah, and the thing is,

Namar has suffered horrific injuries over the last few years.

Agreed. Agreed.

And that is always difficult to come back from,

especially at his age.

And then, so now you have to wonder,

do you take him,

do you take him because he can contribute,

because he's leading the dressing room,

or is there a concern,

and I'm sure there's a genuine concern,

that he can't really see in 90 minutes.

He can't really give you that 90 minutes.

And if he's not a part of the team,

if he's on the squad,

if he's on the bench and doesn't play,

does he become,

does he become a problem

in the dressing room of the park?

Or, you know, I ask that question,

I have no idea what the answer is.

But these are the only things that Carlo Ancelotti has to think.

We're talking about, well,

succession planning, I guess, is a corporate term.

In the terms of the Mexico national team.

Yeah, your business, for a reason.

Well, in terms of the Mexico national team,

would it be better value to have a young player

who's only fringes,

who you can bill your squad around for the next two or three workups?

As a part of this one, for the experience,

all these things are Carlo Ancelotti's responsibility

in making a decision as to who to take and who not to take.

Six months ago, that would have been,

you don't have those players.

You don't have that pool.

So he has to be one of the 26.

If Neymar's not one of the 26 best Brazilian players,

then where are they?

But now there's the emergence of Chelsea's Brazilians.

There's the emergence of Andrec at León.

There's an emergence of all of a sudden,

young attacking quality that's coming through

that makes you second guess

if you should even be one of those 26,

which is why I don't think the victim mentality's going to work for him

if he doesn't change it right now.

Yeah, no, it's definitely not working.

I don't think it's working for him.

I really don't think it's going to work for a Carlo Ancelotti

who really does not have the time or the energy

to have to deal with that.

The locker room question, I think,

is one that could be the final decision.

I mean, if you think about a younger player

who can potentially have a standout world cup

with still a long future as a professional footballer,

then that also becomes very, very attractive.

But at the end, we know we're not expecting maybe that much

from Brazil in general.

Maybe that could also be a motivating point here

for Neymar.

So that is still very much up in the air.

All right, we're going to move along.

We saw some conca-caf champions cup action

as well, the round of 16.

So we're going to start with Nashville

versus Inter Miami.

And we know what it's been as a play in these matchups.

Herc, were you surprised to see the Nil-Nil?

No, I mean, the Nil-Nil, yes,

because I think Nashville actually

was the better team in this game playing at home.

And I thought they'd give Inter Miami a scare,

which is what they did,

but they couldn't put the ball in the back of net.

They had more chances.

And quite frankly,

I remember that Raman should have been sent off

for an early tackle he had in the first half.

That doesn't go through Inter Miami escapes.

I shouldn't say escapes.

Nashville leaves Inter Miami very much alive

in the driver's seat for the next round.

But Nashville's a good team.

They're a team that, if you allow them to run at you

with Cristina Spinoza, with Sam Surage,

with Honey Mukhtar,

they're going to make you suffer.

You suffered, but you survived,

which is good for Messi who wasn't at his best,

which is a little strange,

because I believe it's 15 goals and 10 games

against Nashville for the Nil-Nil Messi.

So I wasn't too surprised that it was so close

that Inter Miami suffered,

but I was very surprised at watching this game

that it stayed 0-0.

I thought Nashville deserved more.

And now Inter Miami very much in the driver's seat.

I was surprised I was in the Nil-Nil to your point.

And he starts their show,

22 shots.

It doesn't talk about how good those opportunities were.

Nashville is an incredible football team,

and they showed it.

But both these teams,

guilt-edged opportunities,

that I would have lost a mortgage on,

that one of them taking one of those.

Because it really,

the quality of the opportunities

that they had suggested so much more

than what we saw from the final scoreline.

To your point hook,

no, they go back to Miami,

we'll see,

but don't write Nashville off.

They showed that they are incredible football inside.

Yeah, and learning from the not-so-fun history

that they've had recently with Inter Miami,

with Messi specifically.

Let's take it to the other match,

though, with San Diego vs. Toluca.

And Toluca, with the missed opportunity,

they played for 10 men

for pretty much most of the game hurt.

Well, minute 12,

there's going to be a red card.

This is how it starts off.

Toluca,

there's going to be right here.

You're going to see Marissa de Luis take a boot to the face.

It's a red card penalty kick.

Look at this.

I mean,

it's hard to argue.

There's contacts.

It's a dangerous play.

It's going to be a Susca yada, though, in charge.

It slots it away.

And at this point,

I'm thinking to myself,

one zero,

I might go to sleep at halftime.

This is a 11 o'clock game for me,

and then guess what?

Right off the gates.

They make it a game.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was great.

And the goal right there.

I mean,

45th,

46 minute,

it was Vasquez again, their shock.

It really was.

And to San Diego,

it was credit.

Look at the number of players they get in the box,

even though they're on demand.

Oh, this is a goal.

What a finish, this is.

If you look at this,

the angle behind the goal,

there's just a little sliver of space,

and Andrew's dryer,

just finds it and curls it away,

listen,

I saw this game come on.

I'll watch the first half.

I want to see what this is about.

Minute 12,

red card,

and a goal.

I don't think,

and I'm thinking of myself.

It's over.

I said to myself,

San Diego is so young,

they're naive enough

to commit these mistakes,

and it happened.

And right when I was going to go to sleep,

they started coming back,

and I was like,

oh, I need to pay attention to them.

And in the second half,

the way 10 men San Diego played

had me wondering,

which team had 10 men?

And they weren't doing against

this any regular old team

in Liga.

And they were doing it against

the back-to-back champions,

whose head coach said,

we're throwing away the league,

what's important for us,

what really matters

is the concaf champions' cup.

All their chips

right there,

and they took it to them.

And I'm watching a 19 year old goalie.

I'm watching both outside backs

and we're also teenagers.

I'm watching both outside backs

and we're also teenagers.

I'm watching a center back,

who by the way got record at the end

saving a goal with his hand,

it was a penalty kick as well.

But I'm watching a 20 year old there.

I'm watching baskets whose 19.

I'm thinking of myself,

Mikey Virus and Taylor Heaps,

like Tyler Heaps, excuse me,

they've really created something here.

Like this team is dynamic, vertical.

They're confident.

They're naive,

and the stupidest and best way possible.

Best going both ways.

And I'm thinking of myself,

wow, that was fun.

Like this is the team I got to paint more attention to.

And they did it against Deluca.

Yeah.

And you could say what you want against Deluca.

Not their day.

They got worked by ten men

and then nine men.

Whatever the case.

But Deluca got two away goals.

And this competition is different

with the away goals rule.

I don't know if it'll be enough for San Diego,

but man,

I do know that I'm going to be tuning in a lot more

to watch San Diego.

That's how good they were.

Yeah, and those very particular errors

because the two only goals that we saw

will not only go,

but the two goals that we saw from Deluca

were penalties shack at the end of the day.

So they still have time to adjust

and really just put this one away.

Yeah, and listen,

to her point,

that that second penalty

that Deluca scored right to the very death,

really changed things in awful lot.

But San Diego are the story here.

With all question on,

it was a red card.

No question early on.

No question.

And it took them ten or fifteen minutes

just to adjust and realize,

hold on,

we could still take this game to Deluca here,

that they're sitting back slightly

and we threw numbers forward.

And I thought, again,

San Diego,

three, two,

doesn't spell,

not as good a result as you want to be taking on the road,

sitting your far better result than you thought

after a minute,

or twelve or whatever it was.

But credit to them,

they are the story at the end of this,

this ninety minutes.

Yeah, absolutely.

It was a surprising night.

We could say at least last night

with the round of sixies

were a little bit unexpected.

We're going to run it back though,

staying in the Gunkagawa Champions Cup,

trying not to laugh that much.

Well, this is still,

yeah, this is running back.

So go last.

All right.

Yeah.

It is.

Shaq, this is a field player in goal.

I don't think a real goalkeeper would have stopped it.

And nobody's stopping that.

You're right.

I saw almost wasted.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

We did.

Look at this.

There's no stopping that.

We're supposed to deal with that.

Just think that the goalie

and the field players have the same colored socks,

but I digress.

I'm trying to divert the attention.

I mean, Shaq.

Yeah.

What a game he had.

It really was.

This touch here.

It's a real special.

It's a real special.

Nice ball to pick him out.

Arise the grid touch.

Does that?

Right.

In a Champions League game against Manchester City.

By the way.

Or a hat trick.

There are games that cement you in legendary status.

And that's easier said than done for a team like Ramadrid.

That was ridiculous.

It totally is.

So I mentioned it.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh.

Why?

I mean, keeper, Shaq.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This question mark.

Would you have taken him out, Shaq?

Huh?

Would you have taken him out?

No.

You can't kill his confidence like that.

I'd love to win.

I mean, there's no getting back to the second game.

So why take him out?

I...

So straight away.

After the first goal.

Somebody in Gorki Makosha needs to go wrong and have a ball with him.

How do I prepare for something?

I just thought...

I just thought the entire coach and staff hung him out to dry.

Yeah.

I think therapy is in this future.

If it's not there already.

Uh-oh.

Malik Tillman, though, heard some's on.

Yeah.

This is unfortunate.

It's the dying minutes of the game.

I don't think there's much to it.

But when you leave your feet from behind in the box,

you leave yourself open to a play like this.

Malik Tillman did that.

And, uh, penalty kick.

And what was a very good game for Liverpool's Inverses Arsenal?

It definitely was.

All right.

Let's get to our dripping or dripping.

This is the Jordan...

And a collab with the soccer.

These are Jordan's soccer sneakers.

Shaq, thoughts?

Um, I don't like your tongue.

So it's Jordan's tongue, right?

It's dripping.

Yeah.

I think it's probably a trick.

More dripping and dripping.

Oh, I kind of like these.

I could see her querying these.

Yeah.

I could kind of like...

What if I say that and I'm like in their ugly mouth?

Listen.

They look like a crossover between a basketball shoe and a soccer shoe.

It really does.

And they look like the old Jordan's that are really like the ones with the black

and the red.

They're a shiny.

The 90s, Jordan's.

So that's why I like them.

The tongue?

I'm not a tongue guy either.

But I happen to like these.

These are sweet.

Interesting weight of it.

Yeah.

It's a little gross.

Interesting weight of it.

Uh, I don't think I'm cool enough to wear these.

Well, I didn't ask you to.

You're cool enough.

Well, I...

I mean, I like them.

Yeah.

Oh, the dripping.

This is a dripping.

This is a dripping for me.

I do...

I do love the subtlety of the details.

But, again, it's like...

It's a nice subtlety of...

That's the rocket, right?

It's a nice subtlety of the 23 on the heel.

Not bad.

What 23 on the heel?

Oh, you can see...

I think these have a cool on you.

I don't even ask a shag.

No.

I know that.

I can't pull out tongue off.

What size are you?

13.

You can buy me a pair.

Is that what was happening?

I'm about half that.

Yeah.

And maybe a little bit more because it's...

I was half that.

What is about two?

Two.

Two.

Listen.

And Mexico, they take me to the kids section.

I have to run back, please.

I am not lying.

And Mexico, I'm a three and a half.

And they take me straight to the kids section.

And you know what the best part is?

Is that it's cheaper?

So it pays to be sure.

Oh, thank you.

And on that note, we will be back on Monday.

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