In a serious soccer country, roster announcements don’t feel like guessing games. Fans already know the spine of the team. We don’t wonder if an MLS guy will get a call over a Bundesliga role player. We don’t celebrate ‘depth’ when it’s really just mediocrity. Standards matter.

Pochettino said the time for experimenting ended in September. Now, I don’t believe in a MLS quota, but if more than 1 MLS player is called in, or if a single European based guy carrying an injury or playing <300 min this season is left off, I’ll believe it. By: Tactical Manager

Don’t be fooled — today isn’t about Pochettino. It’s about whether the MLS quota survives. Call it politics, call it patterns, call it what you want. But if the roster tilts domestic, we already know who’s pulling the strings.

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Exclusive: MLS bias looms large over Pochettino’s October camp roster. Everyone knows the narrative: MLS is irrelevant, yet somehow everywhere. Full analysis coming soon — plus our guide on how to watch every MLS player this weekend.

Chapeu Football 🇧🇷

Alex Freeman is having the best g+ season of any fullback ever and I haven't seen a single person rank him as the best U22 player this year, further proof that our nation's corrupt media will do anything for Sounders fan clicks

President Trump says we should move World Cup matches out of ‘unsafe’ cities. Honestly? He's right. If we can’t handle it, don’t host it. American soccer, we eat our own. By: Alexi Lalas

Mexico’s Jaguar mascot, Zayu, named captain of FIFA World Cup 2026 by President Gianni Infantino. The White House hasn’t returned our request for comment.

It may shock the good folks on this app that a number of users on the other site are amplifying & engaging with this as if it’s a real opinion. Kinda disappointed in y’all that it’s not doing similar numbers here, ngl

Bombshell: Gio Reyna came through MLS’s NYCFC academy. His money is going to USL. What does that say about his faith in the system?

DC United hiring someone who acts like he knows soccer is peak MLS. And I should know — I’ve acted that part for years. By: 11 Yanks

“The smartest guy in football we’ve been around and the hardest working.” @tombogert.bsky.social crashes out over DC United’s CSO hire and the club’s owner’s words about the man who has never worked in football 🤯

USMNT Abroad | Stop by while I discuss why the next big thing playing on a top 5 European club’s U-19s deserves a call up to the #USMNT October squad and a spot on the WC roster. By: 11 Yanks

Borussia Monchengladbach’s new manager sits Gio Reyna on the bench. Berhalter to blame?

WTF Bogert left out Sogut’s most important job…what kind of shill level reporting is this?!

Are MLS academies feeding too many players into the US National Team pipeline?

Excited to fill in for @tombogert.bsky.social today on the latest episode of @soccerwisehq.bsky.social! It'll be a bit like replacing a high-level DP with a guy picked up on waivers, but it'll be a good time either way. Tune in to the live show around 3:30 CT.

Was this the weirdest USMNT camp ever? I brought along Clipboard Cruyff to opine on what the 2-3 zone can tell us about Pochettino’s shift to a back 3. Also, is Balogun more effective in the post or iso from the key? Steph Curry from the bleachers. By: Tactical Manager

Was this the weirdest USMNT camp ever? I brought along Clipboard Cruyff to opine on what the 2-3 zone can tell us about Pochettino’s shift to a back 3. Also, is Balogun more effective in the post or iso from the key? Steph Curry from the bleachers. By: Tactical Manager

7 Things We Learned | Instead of covering the USA’s effective new formation, I’m focused on: - Why Roldan’s FotMob rating is wrong - Arfsten’s ankle breaking assist left a lot for Zendejas to do - What size, style and color are Kasey Keller’s undies? By: Tactical Manager

Everyone wants to 💩 on the MLS players they think can’t walk, or Josh Sargent, who comes in and gets no service. But this is your golden child, Balogun, alone, 5 yds out, GK on the floor, ball at his feet, and it goes…well the USMNT finished with 0 goals, so you do the math

A play in three acts

The 2018 USMNT squad failed to qualify for the World Cup. The 2026 USMNT squad looks like they would probably struggle to qualify and are lucky to have been given an automatic hosting bid. Did GGG work a miracle in 2022?

While Pochettino waits for his signature win, he has found his “dominant” loss

Hear me out USMNT and USWNT fans…

The thing is Berhalter would also have lost 7 of the last 15 but with our A-squad

Imagine working at MLS and thinking this is a good look for the league. Keep those American MLS lifer guys away from this dumpster fire

You guys are thinking about this all wrong, imagine how bad they'd be *without* Poch's world-class coaching

You just know Jurgen Klinsmann is in that box taking credit for instilling the principles in 🇰🇷 that are proving successful and simultaneously criticizing US Soccer for moving away from his frameworks.

It’s kind of crazy that a high level manager with European experience wasn’t able to come in and just completely turn the same #USMNT roster around simply by showing up and just assuming the title of US Men’s Manager

Berhalter to blame

🇺🇸 vs. 🇰🇷 Preview | Son Hueng-min leads a nearly faultless South Korea into another stadium not located in Memphis. I don’t recognize half of this US roster, but based on FotMob ratings and a quick YouTube search, I’m predicting a dominant 3-0 win for 🇰🇷 By: Lawrence Dockery

Poch telling fans what they want to hear is pandering. Me telling QSMNT Twitter what they want to hear? That’s just punditry. By: Herculez Gomez

Butker?! I hardly knew her! Will delete in 30 sec

New Jersey 50 States of Soccer Scouting Report is in!

Gio Reyna out here making 2. Bundesliga reserves look like amateurs in a no stakes friendly, and you want me to believe, in the year of our lord 2025, that CHRISTIAN ROLDAN deserves another call up over him?! There is no denying the MLS quota By: 11 Yanks

🚨 Emergency Stream 🚨 Pochettino selects Roldan. This isn’t about depth — it’s about control. The MLS quota strikes again. How can we compete when our coach is literally Garber’s puppet selecting the best performing 🇺🇸 in MLS?

Berhalter to blame?

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IT’S NEW JERSEY WEEK FOR #50StatesOfSoccer! We need your input: -Best soccer bar? -Best youth club? -Hallowed soccer ground? -NJ cult legend?

Luis Suarez spitting on a MLS NPC was a pretty typical demonstration of intensity in a proper South American footballing culture. But MLS will never do what needs to be done to encourage, promote and harness that level of passion in McFranchise League Soccer By: 3four3

We celebrate Cremaschi to Parma like it’s a win. But the fact Parma ‘settled’ for him after Reyna shows we’re just the Walmart of world football. By: Eric Wynalda

BREAKING ⚠️ If Cremaschi stayed in MLS, I’d say he’s unserious. But since he’s at Parma, I’ll say Parma is unserious. Either way, unserious. By: Tactical Manager

I’m sorry, but if you’re out here still thinking this is a pen after watching all of the replays and hearing the convo - you are wrong. You’re suffering from Doyle-Wiebe take lock.

US Soccer is never beating the allegations. We’ll never be a serious soccer country or grow the fanbase by sending our NT coach out for publicity stunts in front of millions of prospective fans. He should be out recruiting Nathaniel Brown. By: Tactical Yanks

Mauricio Pochettino is at Ohio Stadium in Columbus when he should be out scouting the next Clint at the nearest AYSO field. Column on why this is just another failure by USMNT leadership. By : USMNT Prospects