Futbol Americas: Pepi in peril
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Hello, hello everyone. Happy Monday and welcome to a fresh edition of you know it. You love it. Football Americas. I'm Alexis Nunez and talk about a full house today. Casey Keller, Hercules Gomez and our little sprinkling of conmebol Alejandro Moreno, who by the way, forget Shaka's power rankings. I hear you've got a little list for us.
Well, yes, I was asked to do a list. I don't know why that had to come up with this list, but yes.
A perfectly curated list.
Are we still doing top restaurants in town list with Ale? I can do that too.
Ale loves it.
I prefer doing that list than the list that I was asked to do.
Well, next time maybe we'll do that list at the restaurant, but it just shows that we have something juicy coming for you later on indeed. But also a couple of futures up in the air. Chucky Lozano, where does his future lie? Josh Sargent as well. We're going to talk all about that. But first... some bad news yep it's injury news yet again to hit yet another us national team player ricardo pepe he suffered a broken arm in the first game back for psv after the erie divisi winter break but in true style he did it right after scoring a goal or actually while he was scoring a goal but he's been in such hot form recently 11 goals to his name and now it looks like he will be out For two months. You hate to see it.
It's an ugly picture. Indeed, he had to be taken off instantly clutching it. Now the club says that he has undergone surgery on it. But as we said, two months he will be sidelined for. And you have a look at this. He does have a bit of an injury history. He did have a major injury in January last year that kept him out pretty much for all of the season. He started coming back in fall last year, guys, and seemed like he was really on a nice roll. But now this is just another setback that I feel like I want to talk about the timing of it. Casey, let me start with you on this one, because it feels like it could be the worst timing ever because he's been on such a hot streak. Or do you think he still can return?
He has time. But the tricky part is it's really that end of March. window that is going to be so crucial and the question mark will be is will he be back by that time and will he be back enough to get enough form and fitness to where Pochettino says yes I need you in that last squad has he done enough before that to be given enough equity leeway to be able to then be like okay let's let's work you in just tough timing for Ricardo.
Eric If it was anything else besides the forearm or arm injury, I'd be a bit more worried. He's lost 31 games due to a knee injury and you suspect or you expect that there are muscular injuries to follow when it's a big injury with your knee. We don't know to the extent of how bad that knee was. They didn't disclose if it was ACL, if it was meniscal, if it was cartilage, what it was, but he missed 31 games. And then he misses because of muscular issues a few more games. This is a freak accident. I'm not too worried about it. He has a few things going in his favor. That when he plays, he's been scoring goals. Brief time, a lot of time, he scores goals. The other is that... Paul Aaron Baligan's the only one, when it comes to club and country right now, that keeps scoring goals.
He's the only one. So when you look at the rest, Haji's cooled off a bit at the club level. Josh Sargent... He is in no man's land right now. You know, Patrick, you might have scored a few goals in the championship, but he hasn't been there on the national team to participate, let alone score those goals. By default, I think Ricardo Pepe is still in that top three pecking order. He's got that going for him. But certainly, as Casey's saying, with such an important window coming around, you don't want to be injured. And you want to be hitting your stride, hitting your form at the right time. So it's not a worst-case scenario for Ricardo Pepe, but after the injury spell, it's not what you want to see.
And I feel like any injury in a World Cup year just has us all panicking, Ale.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:08–4:10
2
What happened to Ricardo Pepi’s arm injury and how long is he expected to be out?
4:10–7:27
3
How does Pepi’s injury affect his World Cup chances and the USMNT striker pecking order?
7:27–10:09
4
Why do panelists disagree on whether Pepi’s forearm injury is a serious long‑term concern?
10:09–28:49
5
What exactly did Josh Sargent do at Norwich and how are clubs reacting to his refusal to play?
28:49–31:55
6
Could Sargent’s transfer tactics backfire and what consequences might Norwich impose?
31:55–1:08:40
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