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@tombogert.bsky.social Pinned🇺🇸🔴🔵 BREAKING: Crystal Palace in advanced talks to sign American winger/wingback Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake, per sources
- Deal not agreed yet, but trending well. Likely in $15m region
- Gozo, 19, made clear he wants to go to Europe
@soccerwisehq.bsky.socialReposted by @tombogert.bsky.socialYour Monday MLS Soccerwise is out now!
@empiregass.bsky.social, @tombogert.bsky.social, and @mattdoyle.bsky.social break down historic runs from St. Louis and Philadelphia as well as much more from the weekend!
@joeclowery.bsky.socialReposted by @tombogert.bsky.socialMichael Bradley has reinvented Red Bull New York...again. It's working a treat.
I wrote about the new-look Red Bulls and pondered whether anybody near the top of the West is any good (outside of St. Louis City, of course).
For @backheeled.com ⤵️
@henrybushnell.bsky.socialReposted by @tombogert.bsky.socialThree months ago, the Philadelphia Union were the worst team in MLS. Now, they're the hottest over 13 games *in league history* Huh? How? On the ☕️ café meeting when captain Ale Bedoya knew a turnaround was coming — and the 🪒 thin margins of MLS:
@tombogert.bsky.socialJoe’s fashion too break out that scarf bro
@tombogert.bsky.socialwell @johnspacemuller.com has a new favorite team
@tombogert.bsky.social🇧🇷 Andre Luiz last five games: ⚽️ 7 goals 🅰️ 1 assist ⏰ 395 minutes
@tombogert.bsky.socialthey followed up when i didn't answer (after screenshotting it and sending it to my friends to make fun of, of course) and it took everything in me not to needlessly pick a fight and just answer "no"
@tombogert.bsky.socialCrisis PR, man. This summer I got a pitch from a firm asking if I wanted to interview a crisis PR person on how he’d handle Balogun red card fallout Sold it with “he managed crises for Penn State after Sandusky scandal.” Like no I don’t want to talk to the fucking guy who spun the Sandusky scandal
@tombogert.bsky.social🇻🇪 Sources: FC Cincinnati has signed Venezuelan int'l midfielder Jose Martinez after a successful training stint. Martinez, 32, joins after leaving Corinthians. He is finishing recovering from torn ACL. Deal thru end of season + option thru sprint season. Done ahead of today's roster freeze
@tombogert.bsky.socialomitting info. your ENTIRE defense is that it’s the tagline of a bridge (not the name of said bridge) that no one has ever heard of
@tombogert.bsky.social🇺🇸 Mauricio Pochettino's youthful USMNT squad saw 13 players make their debut this window.
Which players are ready to stay in the senior USMNT group, which are on the bubble and who needs some more time to develop?
w/ @HenryBushnell
www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...
@tombogert.bsky.social🇺🇸 First international break of 2030 World Cup cycle for the USMNT a perfect start with 4 wins in four matches: - 13 players make senior debuts - Cavan Sullivan first goal - Julian Hall first goals - Mathis Albert first goal - Tyler Adams named captain - Wins over Mexico, Canada
@tombogert.bsky.socialAlex Freeman: 2025: - First MLS start into breakout star - USMNT debut 2026 - Big money move to Villarreal - Breakout USMNT young player at World Cup - Champions League debut - Constant USMNT starter / pseudo “veteran” leader in this camp at 22 years old Unreal 2 years
@tombogert.bsky.social🇺🇸 The making of Julian Hall, on and off the field:
- "For me, genuinely, there was no doubt he'd make it," RBNY academy director Sean McCafferty said.
- "I don't raise assholes," his mom said.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
@tombogert.bsky.socialneed to know if it's taxpayer or owner funded
@tombogert.bsky.social🇺🇸 Sources: Nothing has changed in the plan for USMNT attacker Cavan Sullivan to join Manchester City in January 2028 after he turns 18.
Sullivan is focused on Philadelphia Union and USMNT right now.
Been asked about it... nothing new here.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
@tombogert.bsky.socialMike Tomlin, come on the podcast and tell me everything you want about your MLS team in Minecraft I beg of you
@tombogert.bsky.social🟢 Sources: Austin FC closing in on a deal to sign Finland youth int'l defensive midfielder Eze Onuoha from SJK. Likely to be U-22 initiative deal but TBD on further moves. Onuoha, 17, would join in January.
@tombogert.bsky.socialmike tomlin revealed the minecraft city he has building for a dozen years and it includes an MLS stadium. legend
@tombogert.bsky.socialTwo goals in his first two USMNT caps — the youngest ever to do so — it's a dream week in a dream season.
But Julian Zakrzewski Hall is just getting started.
“Julian thrived on being the man, the difference-maker."
www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...