Tim Howard

So that's...

That's rumored, but we're going to assume that's true.

So that was my first thing.

Unfortunately, and this has evolved over time and it's become more so, I think, in the last five or ten years.

international soccer is such a business.

And you hear in the NFL all the time, they just say, it's business, it's business, it's business, it's a business decision.

And it really is, and that's okay.

And it's okay if it's on Josh Sargent's side, and it's okay if it's on Norwich's side.

But I just want to share, part of the reason why you and I are on this pod right now is because I went to Everton.

And I want to just remind people,

Over the course of four or five years with the Galaxy before I went to Everton, you build relationships with all the people, with Chris Klein, the president, with the coach, Bruce Reno, with the owner, Tim Lewicki, and Phil Anschutz, Dan Beckerman.

You build relationships so that when these moments come, you can have an honest, real conversation, right?

And there's respect on both sides.

When I went to them and said, look, I have this opportunity to go to Everton, they could have said, go pound sand.

You're not going anywhere.

It's our off season, and you need to rest.

But because of the relationship, I said, I really want to do this.

And they granted me that wish.

And it helped.

It changed my life.