Who’s the best Premier League journeyman ever? | Listener Questions

**Ryan Bailey** (0:21)
Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest batch of listener questions! On this episode, we're seeing how Pochettino can keep things fresh for the USMNT, we're making Premier League managers play games again, and we're ranking the biggest kit crimes out there. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today, Taylor Rockwells here. Hi, Taylor, how's you?

**Taylor Opko** (0:42)
Eyes Wells, Ryan Bailey, how's you?

**Ryan Bailey** (0:45)
Eyes Wells, also thank you for asking. Good to see you.
Also, good to see Mr. Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe.

**Joe Lowry** (0:52)
Hey, Ryan, are we just going to compliment train this thing? It is lovely to see you, and you look glowing. Get one up to Taylor.

**Ryan Bailey** (0:59)
Oh, that's very nice. I got a new webcam. It's really working for my looks maxing I'm doing over here. Thanks, Joe.

**Joe Lowry** (1:05)
Yeah, it is. You've been listening to the lingo that your daughters are passing up the food chain. I like that.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:10)
That's right. That's right. Lingo travels fast in the Bailey household.

**Joe Lowry** (1:15)
Yeah, that's right.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:17)
Well, relatively speaking.

**Taylor Opko** (1:18)
It's traveling.

**Joe Lowry** (1:19)
All right, it's traveling.

**Taylor Opko** (1:21)
Indeed.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:22)
Graham Ruffins here. Hi, Graham, what's the shirt you're wearing there?

**Graham Ruffins** (1:25)
This is Monterey in honor of, definitely watched their Leeds Cup match against Orlando City last night. I think they've got Inter-Miami at the weekend. We're all watching that tournament, right? Like that, we're all. Joe probably is actually.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:36)
Yeah, bits and pieces for sure.

**Joe Lowry** (1:38)
Griezmann scored a great goal in that game. He's been awesome. The other player, by the way, that I mentioned on yesterday's USMNT-centric show that I'm really excited about and regretted that we left off of our list, Taylor, is Justin Ellis, who's the young striker for Orlando City.
Griezmann, last I saw anyway, I believe this is true. Apologies if it is not. You can fact-check it, I can fact-check it.
Justin Ellis is the only Orlando City player that Griezmann is following on Instagram. He's the only one. The only one that's worthy. Yeah, I think so. He's talking about publicly, like, dude, this guy, this guy's good. I like this guy. So I think there's a bond, like a soccer bond forming between those two players, which is just a weird thing, but I love it. It makes me happy. And I think Ellis is class. Anyway, League's Cup. Iconic.

**Graham Ruffins** (2:22)
I love with Orlando City how we were all thinking when they made that Griezmann signing, like, oh, silly. Orlando City, that's not going to turn them into a functional cohesive. Oh, wait. No, actually, well, yeah, that'll improve things really good. And they're now much better.

**Ryan Bailey** (2:36)
Congrats to Orlando City. And congrats to everybody who subscribes to our bonus feed, patreon.com/totalsoccershow. Do you know why they get congrats, Graham? Because they get bonus episodes, including bonus listener questions. On this week's bonus listener question, we're talking about one of Graham's favorite things, third kits. Which ones are the coolest? Why are they so cool? How do you feel about a third kit? Actually, no. Save your powder, Graham. Save your powder.

**Taylor Opko** (3:00)
I will. Don't answer that.
Let's charge for that.

**Joe Lowry** (3:03)
Spoiler alert, he likes them.

**Graham Ruffins** (3:05)
Oh yeah. And fourth kits, and fifth kits, and sixth kits.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:08)
Plenty of bonus content, including that on the bonus feed. We get video on there, and we've got our Discord, where all the cool kids are hanging out, patreon.com/totalsoccershow.
Thank you to everybody who joins us there. But as for now on this main feed, we're going to answer the heck out of some listener questions. Including this one from Rusty. What does Mauricio Pochettino have to do to make sure his message doesn't get stale in the second cycle? Taylor, would you like to kick off on your thoughts on this one? What does Poch have to do to make sure his message doesn't get stale? I'm presuming this is like person to person messages, not emails or anything like that, because we know that that chain doesn't work very well. I'm going to keep making that joke.

**Joe Lowry** (3:49)
Well, the email chain works fine. The phone chain is the one that doesn't work, but either way your point stands.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:54)
Yeah, I guess you're right, don't it?

**Taylor Opko** (3:56)
If I may, how are we all interpreting a message? Like his message to the team, his approach, his general philosophy on coaching, some combination of all those things?