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Landon Donovan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
8475 total appearances

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Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

I think they had 27% of the ball in this game and they could care less. Home, away, whatever. And what's happening in world soccer now, Tim, is it's like the Barcelona have the ball, have the ball. Pep Guardiola have the ball, have the ball. And now teams are going, don't care. Some teams are just saying, that's great. You can be sexy and have the ball. Don't care.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And Minnesota does it every week, and you know they're going to do it. And then they wait for their chance, and they go score, and they score, and they score. And they've been good, man. They're second in the West. Miami, it feels, Tim, like schedule's starting to catch up a little with them. And that's the MLS problem, right, is first 11, 13, 14 are good enough.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And Minnesota does it every week, and you know they're going to do it. And then they wait for their chance, and they go score, and they score, and they score. And they've been good, man. They're second in the West. Miami, it feels, Tim, like schedule's starting to catch up a little with them. And that's the MLS problem, right, is first 11, 13, 14 are good enough.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And Minnesota does it every week, and you know they're going to do it. And then they wait for their chance, and they go score, and they score, and they score. And they've been good, man. They're second in the West. Miami, it feels, Tim, like schedule's starting to catch up a little with them. And that's the MLS problem, right, is first 11, 13, 14 are good enough.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

But when you get deep into your roster and you have to fill in some spots, it's just not good enough.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

But when you get deep into your roster and you have to fill in some spots, it's just not good enough.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

But when you get deep into your roster and you have to fill in some spots, it's just not good enough.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

It's going to be interesting with messy because coming up this summer, and this is for all players worldwide. Now there's a FIFA date, uh, beginning middle of June. So he's going to go, I mean, they've had a really congested schedule already with Miami and, And now Argentina have qualified, so maybe they don't bring him in.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

It's going to be interesting with messy because coming up this summer, and this is for all players worldwide. Now there's a FIFA date, uh, beginning middle of June. So he's going to go, I mean, they've had a really congested schedule already with Miami and, And now Argentina have qualified, so maybe they don't bring him in.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

It's going to be interesting with messy because coming up this summer, and this is for all players worldwide. Now there's a FIFA date, uh, beginning middle of June. So he's going to go, I mean, they've had a really congested schedule already with Miami and, And now Argentina have qualified, so maybe they don't bring him in.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

But if he goes back to Argentina, South America comes back playing in Club World Cup plus MLS games. I mean, we've talked about it a lot, but how he gets managed is going to be really important. And a lot of their roster, to be honest.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

But if he goes back to Argentina, South America comes back playing in Club World Cup plus MLS games. I mean, we've talked about it a lot, but how he gets managed is going to be really important. And a lot of their roster, to be honest.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

But if he goes back to Argentina, South America comes back playing in Club World Cup plus MLS games. I mean, we've talked about it a lot, but how he gets managed is going to be really important. And a lot of their roster, to be honest.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

Right.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

Right.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

Right.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

Yeah. But Tim, the challenge will be then how seriously do they take the club world cup? Because if he goes away to international duty, he's going to come back, Club World Cup starts. Bang. And so that's going to be a challenge. Because it's like you get in these moments, and when you plan out the calendar in the beginning of the year, you go, ah, this isn't that important. That's not that.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

Yeah. But Tim, the challenge will be then how seriously do they take the club world cup? Because if he goes away to international duty, he's going to come back, Club World Cup starts. Bang. And so that's going to be a challenge. Because it's like you get in these moments, and when you plan out the calendar in the beginning of the year, you go, ah, this isn't that important. That's not that.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

Yeah. But Tim, the challenge will be then how seriously do they take the club world cup? Because if he goes away to international duty, he's going to come back, Club World Cup starts. Bang. And so that's going to be a challenge. Because it's like you get in these moments, and when you plan out the calendar in the beginning of the year, you go, ah, this isn't that important. That's not that.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And then you get into the league, you lose 4-1 to Minnesota, and now you're like, oh, now the next game's important. So it's a challenge.