00:00Pochettino decided to leave the United States to join Manchester United, one of the most
00:05controversial seats in European football, and it goes to prove that some coaches much rather
00:11go to the very worst situation in Europe than be at the very best situation in international
00:17football. Living in the United States with a humongous budget behind you, with all the
00:23players listening to your old words, winning your first four official games of this cycle,
00:28none of that was enough for him to stay, and Pochettino, the poacher, is moving on to...
00:34But was he fired or did he resign?
00:36No, no fired. Manchester United is dropping dozens of millions of dollars to pay the rescission
00:43clause on the contract, so he's free to go. He is asking up to $400 million in reinforcement.
00:51He's asking for Haaland and Nico Paz. Just $400 million in transfers.
00:57Let's go back to the other side. And you said, and this happens a lot, you know, baseball
01:02is my thing. This happens a lot in baseball. Sometimes baseball teams sign a player for
01:08a one-year contract, a veteran player, knowing that they are not going to make the playoffs
01:13or be close to the playoffs because they will eventually trade the guy to any other team
01:19for a few prospects. Now let's go to this situation. Pochettino, U.S. soccer. Do you
01:25think, Marcelino, and I'm asking you because you are the guru of MLS and all that stuff,
01:30do you think the U.S. soccer knew that having Pochettino for two years after the World Cup,
01:36somebody was going to come and say, hey, we want this guy?
01:39Without a doubt.
01:39I'm going to give you $100 million to let him go. And U.S. said, you know what? That
01:44is a good business for U.S. soccer, for Pochettino, and for a lot of other people.
01:48But was that how much they had to pay?
01:50This is a very hefty rescission clause in his contract.
01:53But that's insane. This is for the international club.
01:54If you want to break a contract, that's how much it's going to cost you. And to your point,
01:58it was very suspicious that he got a new contract right off the World Cup, resigns for a whole
02:05new cycle, promises that he's going to be around. And then, me doy la media vuelta y te diré adiós.
02:12My friend, no, I don't know. I just don't want to get copyright. No, no. Copyright. Copyright.
02:17Parale, chavo. Parale.
02:19My friends, this is a crisis here in the United States. A process that was looking really,
02:25really good now is shaky. But if this man, Pep Guardiola, comes as the new coach of the United
02:32States, like I said in Latin Asian Football Club, que se cuide México, because I don't
02:36know when we could beat that team again. Pep Guardiola has my utter respect. He has won
02:41everything, everywhere, as a player and as a coach. And he will be able to unlock. Now,
02:47this is a tough seat, guys. In the United States, as you guys well know, las campeonas del mundo
02:52son las mujeres. The women national team is the most successful soccer team in the country
02:57by far. And it will take the United States, the men's team, probably 20 years to catch
03:02up to the success that they have. The United States men's team is never going to win.
03:05They'll never catch up. They'll never catch up. So, imagine being Pep Guardiola, coming
03:08from all the glory and the biggest seat, the biggest bench in the world, Manchester City,
03:15and any national team, coming to the United States where people are going to tell you,
03:19call me when you are world champion twice or three times, and then maybe we can take a
03:24seat. But that's not the goal. The goalpost for the men's team isn't to win the World Cup.
03:28It is. It is. For the amount of money that they have. No, but if they advance far into
03:34the playoff bracket, the knockout round, that's enough. I mean, look how excited we got that
03:38we even made the knockout round. No, no, no. It's not enough anymore.
03:40Not anymore. It is not enough anymore. It is not enough anymore.
03:42It is not enough anymore. Nobody expects the U.S. men's team to win.
03:44The World Cup. The U.S. fans and the team expects them to win.
03:48The team, not fans. I don't know any U.S. fans that expect the men's team to win.
03:54That back, let's go back 20, 25 years, being the coach of the U.S. national team men's, it was
04:01like,
04:01okay, cool, fine. Anybody can do it. Now it's different. Of course. Now it's different.
04:05But you're saying what the expectations are high. The expectations are high, but not a World Cup
04:11championship. I think that this is a great example. This debate right here, we see what's
04:17happening with the U.S. fan base. On one end, you have the core soccer fans that insist that now
04:23the goalpost is for the U.S. to become world champion because they have the facilities,
04:27they have the player pipeline, they have the money. And on the other side,
04:31they have the hype. You have the American sports fan that football doesn't rank high on their
04:38preferences and watching, and they still feel like there's, you know, that there's a lot of room
04:45for them to fail.
