Rudyjax said:

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With his substitute appearance against Club Brugge today, Weston McKennie officially became just the 2nd American all-time to play in 30 career Champions League games 🥈

He only trails his USMNT teammate Christian Pulisic, who has played in 59 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Czt6yPH9AZ

— USMNT Source (@usmntsource) January 22, 2025

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It's crazy how many guys we have in this competition now compared to just a handful of years ago.

Oops, I'll add a quote since I bumped us to a new page.

deadbq03 said:

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Rudyjax said:

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With his substitute appearance against Club Brugge today, Weston McKennie officially became just the 2nd American all-time to play in 30 career Champions League games 🥈

He only trails his USMNT teammate Christian Pulisic, who has played in 59 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Czt6yPH9AZ

— USMNT Source (@usmntsource) January 22, 2025

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It's crazy how many guys we have in this competition now compared to just a handful of years ago.

Oops, I'll add a quote since I bumped us to a new page.

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And every one of our players made it into the knockout rounds.

At first glance, I thought PSV might have to worry (and evidently so does this dummy at CBS), but the City-Brugge match means someone will end up with fewer points (City loss/draw) or worse GD (Brugge loss).

Definitely entertaining dude. Kinda like Hoppe showing up at a USMNT event with a GGG tshirt

Sargent with the brace today.


Banks in the starting lineup for Augsburg. - great performance in victory. Pundit said a lot of good things and he looked great back there.

Adam's starting for Bournemouth. -2 assists in an asking of Forest.

Ledezma is starting for PSV. Pepi on the bench.

Weston starting for Juventus, Wesh on the bench.

Banks now has more Bundesliga minutes than Gio.

That kid is mystifying. He plays well when he plays but never gets to play at club level. And they put too high of a price tag to move him even tho they're not playing him.

So odd.

Pepi with another goal.

1.45 - Ricardo Pepi's 1.45 goals per 90 minutes rate this season (11 goals in 683 minutes) is the second-highest among players to play at least 500 minutes in the top 10 European leagues this season (Patrik Schick - 1.50). Window. pic.twitter.com/wdJyBKeyZZ

— OptaJack⚽️ (@OptaJack) January 25, 2025

Rudyjax said:

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Banks now has more Bundesliga minutes than Gio.

That kid is mystifying. He plays well when he plays but never gets to play at club level. And they put too high of a price tag to move him even tho they're not playing him.

So odd.

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A massive part of every player deal is current salary. If Gio is happy to draw a bigger paycheck now (with hopes that maybe he'll prove he's actually worth it) than he's not going to end his contract early to move on for much less.

deadbq03 said:

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Rudyjax said:

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Banks now has more Bundesliga minutes than Gio.

That kid is mystifying. He plays well when he plays but never gets to play at club level. And they put too high of a price tag to move him even tho they're not playing him.

So odd.

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A massive part of every player deal is current salary. If Gio is happy to draw a bigger paycheck now (with hopes that maybe he'll prove he's actually worth it) than he's not going to end his contract early to move on for much less.

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Right. But BVB is asking more than his market value for him.

Rudyjax said:

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deadbq03 said:

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Rudyjax said:

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Banks now has more Bundesliga minutes than Gio.

That kid is mystifying. He plays well when he plays but never gets to play at club level. And they put too high of a price tag to move him even tho they're not playing him.

So odd.

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A massive part of every player deal is current salary. If Gio is happy to draw a bigger paycheck now (with hopes that maybe he'll prove he's actually worth it) than he's not going to end his contract early to move on for much less.

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Right. But BVB is asking more than his market value for him.

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Maybe, but numbers that they leak are always going to be higher than what they'd actually be willing to part with him for.

He's also uniquely (in)famous, so the next club is going to get a bump in jersey sales and more importantly, a boost in media attention before they even play him, which is worth a lot. Milan has made a lot of money on Pulisic's fame… I could be wrong, but Gio might be a close #2 in terms of US stardom (albeit for different reasons).

Also… this could very well be a case of management vs. coaching with Gio.

Management may well be like us and see this exciting young player who does well on the field, but the coach has to deal with whatever BS is happening behind the scenes… and I'm convinced there's something there.

It'd be one thing if it was just GGG and Dortmund… but we now have the Forest loan in the mix and that seems to be yet another case of management thinking he would be good but coaches disagreeing and therefore not playing him. To me, that was kinda his third strike. I'd love for him to prove me wrong.

Richards defending a header collided with the attacker and gave up the goal.

Subbed off with what seemed like a head injury.

Other link was removed, vid of Musah's picture perfect assist:

This Yunus Musah 🇺🇸 assist was as close to perfection as it gets.
What a perfectly placed pass!

One of those goals where the assist is better than the goal itself.
pic.twitter.com/fOVLyvF1ty

— Tactical Manager (@ManagerTactical) January 26, 2025