What was the best American player summer transfer? | USMNT Weekly

**Ryan Bailey** (0:20)
Welcome to the Total Soccer Show USMNT Weekly. It's our regular foray into all things national team. On this episode, we're looking at the best and the least best American summer transfers. We've got a deep dive on Greenville, South Carolina, and Borussia Dortmund's Mathis Albert, and so, so much more. Strap in, let's go. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, Taylor Rockwell. Fancy seeing you here, how are you doing?

**Taylor Rockwell** (0:45)
I'm doing well. I'm excited, because I think this could be a surprise episode in which Joe and I single-handedly frustrate Ryan more than we ever have in any other episode, because I foresee a lot of like, oh Ryan, one more thing, one more player to add, one more player to mention Ryan. I feel like that's going to happen a lot, and I'm excited for you to try to transition us out of topics and into the next one.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:04)
The famously tight shape I run around here is going to be threatened. Is that what you're saying?

**Taylor Rockwell** (1:09)
Yeah, but you do reach a point where you're like, all right, we're going long, I guess, and I want to see how many of those moments we can have and how early. We'll see. Why don't I start right now by not letting anyone else speak and just continuing to talk, Ryan?

**Ryan Bailey** (1:21)
Yeah. Carry on as you mean to, Taylor. That's what I say there. Very good indeed. Joe Lowry, hello. How are you?

**Joe Lowry** (1:26)
Hey, I'm great, Taylor. I thought you were referencing just all the appraise we were going to give to South Carolina, but Ryan already kind of cut that off for the pass in his intro, right? Like he acknowledged it already. I feel like that's maybe the passing of some sort of peace offering from North to South. I don't know exactly, but we will have to find other ways to make his life miserable.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:45)
We are bound to South Carolina here in North Carolina, Joe, not just by a state line, but by a philosophy.

**Joe Lowry** (1:51)
Really?

**Ryan Bailey** (1:53)
We all love beaches.

**Graham Ruthern** (1:54)
Okay. Fair enough.

**Joe Lowry** (1:56)
Is Hilton Head in South Carolina?

**Ryan Bailey** (1:58)
Hilton Head Island is in South Carolina, the greatest place in the world.

**Joe Lowry** (2:00)
Of course, that's the reason you have to be saying nice things about them so they'll let you go to Hilton Head. Got it.

**Taylor Rockwell** (2:05)
I thought the Carolina philosophy was just books.

**Ryan Bailey** (2:12)
Enough from you, Taylor.

**Graham Ruthern** (2:12)
Graham Rothern, hello.

**Taylor Rockwell** (2:13)
I stole that from Pat and I was wrong.

**Graham Ruthern** (2:14)
Hello, Ryan Bailey. We had a filibuster from Taylor at the start of this episode. Talking of filibusters, I've got something I've been meaning to ask you. Have you clocked just how long the international filibuster we've got coming up is?

**Ryan Bailey** (2:29)
Has anyone told you yet? Yeah.
Is it three weeks or is it a month?

**Graham Ruthern** (2:33)
Is it over three weeks? Yeah.
There's four games. But we get it all out of the way, right?

**Ryan Bailey** (2:40)
Is this like you need to take your car to the shop, you need three different things done, you get them all done at one session, right? At least there's that kind of thing going on.

**Graham Ruthern** (2:48)
It's like how on a Friday I go for a haircut, go to the gym, go to the dentist, I do them all at once.

**Ryan Bailey** (2:55)
All in the same room as well, right?

**Graham Ruthern** (2:56)
That's right. Yeah.
Get my fish and taco. It's the whole thing.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:01)
Excellent stuff. Well, I can't wait for that. Great. All right. We're kicking off strong here on USMNT Weekly, Monthly, Weekly. All right. Let's get to it. Before we do so, patreon.com/totalsoccershow is where our bonus content is. Come find it. Find that URL. Click on it. There, you will find bonus episodes. You will find access to our Discord server and so much more goodness. You can come and have a chat with us in our Discord. Thank you to everybody in our community who does so. patreon.com/totalsoccershow. Hey, Joe. What say we get to the transfer stuff? What do you think?

**Joe Lowry** (3:36)
I would love to, Ryan. It would make me happy.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:39)
All right. We'll start off in this episode with the USMNT American player, who's had a great summer move. We've got some candidates here. Joe is going to give us his first one right now.