Landon Donovan

Or how will you feel if in three months time?

I don't know.

There's no sun in London and you're missing the sun of L.A.

Have you thought through it?

And.

And then I might say things like, oh, you mentioned, you know, these things might be important.

Perhaps you need to go back and revisit that.

I will always just get them to take their time with the decision and push them.

Like most of the time, they'll say things like, this has been my dream.

And then I'll say, well, OK, listen, your life, your choices.

But as I always say, be informed about it and make sure you work through some of the things that you know are going to crop up along the way in advance of doing it if you can.

And most importantly, try to always leave wherever you're leaving in the best possible way, because you never know, you may return.

And sometimes I might even say to them, it sounds to me like you don't really want to leave, but there might be a little bit more support you might need.

Perhaps you go back to your club and be really clear with them.

Yeah.

it's, I, I, I feel like I definitely know since I've become a parent, I feel like it feels like quite a parental role more than anything else.

And, um, like I said, some, some of them will come to me right at the beginning.

Some will come right at the end.

When you have the players 80% of the time at club and you are having to deal with absolutely everything that comes with that, not just what's going on for them on the field and off the field, it's much like being a parent.

I think when you have the players for 20% of the time at the national team, it feels like being a grandparent.