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USMNT podcast. @v_sospiffy, @away_goals, @adambelz, @tha_Real_Kumar on the mic. DMs open. Woso coverage @bootspod

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Yal know what time it is don’t ya!? It’s time for WE to do that soccer

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Lemon sighting

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The yellow pin Poch has on is a lemon slice (if you don’t understand just google Poch lemons). A couple listeners brought a bag of various lemon pins to Seattle to give out to fellow Scuffians & one made its way to Poch! Pretty cool

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Continuing the clean & found these videos of BJ. He’s funny as hell man there has never been a football sounding ass soccer coach like this

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Cleaning out my camera roll #RIPPOCH

[ApoloJedi @ApoloJedi_]

@scuffedpod He's such a hypocrite. He demanded that his players be fully locked-in and committed to the USA, but he always had wandering eyes for the Premier League

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Truzz @jtbatson

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Cinema!

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

🚨🇺🇸 Sources: U.S. Soccer is expected to make Pep Guardiola a top target to become next USMNT head coach.

Obviously the pursuit would not be straightforward nor easy. But likely to start with call to Pep.

w/ @PaulTenorio @HenryBushnell
https://t.co/zHaggH9J7i

[Tom Bogert @tombogert]

🚨🇺🇸 Sources: U.S. Soccer is expected to make Pep Guardiola a top target to become next USMNT head coach.

Obviously the pursuit would not be straightforward nor easy. But likely to start with call to Pep.

w/ @PaulTenorio @HenryBushnell
https://t.co/zHaggH9J7i

[scott jorek @Burgermeister73]

@scuffedpod gonna need a new profile pic 😔

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Mauricio Pochettino has patiently waited eight years to manage Manchester United, a desire that didn’t waver even when they repeatedly messed him around and ultimately overlooked him.

Since Tottenham, every job he took seemed to be a compromise because it wasn’t the one he *really* wanted.

I do not think there has been an option available to the club since 2018 who would have been a better choice, not only because he loves and connects with the very essence of what Manchester United means and has been desperate to resurrect it, but his key strengths as a manager - and as a person - is what they have been crying out for.

Identity, energy, structure, belief, confidence, connection.

While he has been perfect for them, my fear is they are not for him. The mountain of mess made by the Glazers and INEOS is exacerbated by the continued breaking of promises and lack of direction. The leveraged buyout debt is harming the club more than ever, and financial constraints will contour everything.

Pochettino is the best bet United have. But the powers that be seem a guarantee to botch things up.

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The below is from an article I did in October 2021, detailing the first instances of the club looking to hire Pochettino.

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Who got the video of Poch running to the bathroom during January camp lmfao

[Alex Lombardi @alexlombardi_]

@scuffedpod 🎶Where does the timeee go 🎶

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Cleaning out my camera roll #RIPPOCH

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Cleaning out my camera roll #RIPPOCH

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Poch was in his ELEMENT when he attended the Espanyol-Southampton friendly over the weekend

[Commodore Matt Decker @CdreMattDecker]

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A succession plan you say??

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Understand US Soccer is well prepared for a Mauricio Pochettino departure, and is ready to activate their own succession plan if necessary.🇺🇸

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Just keep living brother

[Bobby Lynch @Sportsfreek5567]

@scuffedpod To be fine with how things have been in the past instead of building towards something more which was a belief with Poch in charge, is truly a sad take.

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We should be able to hire a coach that can get us to the round of 16 in the World Cup & win some concacaf trophies. As everyone before Poch has. Whether or not everyone feels good about getting the same results as usual is another thing based on a lot of external factors

[Bobby Lynch @Sportsfreek5567]

@scuffedpod You are putting an insane amount of faith in US Soccer getting this next hire right and things continuing to build how they are. Who is to say that a new coach coming in doesn’t change all the goodwill Poch has instilled?

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We’re about to get a transfer fee for a manager & his staff. Shit we might not even need to ask donors for money for our next hire if we choose to stay in the same price range

[Matteo @Matteo917212]

@scuffedpod It was so silly to give him an extension. If he's gonna leave I guess sooner is better than later