Landon Donovan

And on the outs.

It's really interesting.

Yeah.

This one's hard for me.

You know, I always say sports are the ultimate meritocracy because they don't care who you are, where you've been from, who you love, what you look like, what language you speak.

You have to do the job, and if you don't do the job, you're out, and if you do the job, you're in.

But in some cases, it's just not the case.

And with Gio, if you said right now and you take his body of work with his club team and with the national team would say he does not deserve to go to the World Cup.

However, if he's fit and he's healthy and you need a goal in the last 20 minutes, you're looking down the bench, there's not many people you're going to look past, right?

Or there's not many people you're going to choose over Gio, if any, right?

And so now it's like...

It's not fair.

And it might not be fair.

Right.

But he probably needs to go for that reason.

Especially if the roster is 26 players.

Correct.

Yeah, he probably does.

But I personally, I think given everything, I would say he would be on the outs.

But I think in Pochettino's mind, he's like, I got something here.