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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
How exciting will the Gold Cup be without Christian Pulisic?
How exciting will the Gold Cup be without Christian Pulisic? | The Cooligans Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros react to the United States Men's National Team's 27-player roster and debate whether or not it makes sense for Christian Pulisic to be absent. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Us men's national team have released their 2027-man roster for the Gold Cup. Advertisement A lot of names missing. Christian Palii, not in it, not in it. Yeah, my man's taking a sabbatical. He got, he's in a hammock, bro. He's got his sunglasses on, flip flops, taking a break. I think apparently if, if he plays 49 more minutes this season, um, it will be the either the most amount of minutes. Played in his career or something like that. They're they're basically saying like, he's a lot of miles on them, got a lot of minutes logged and uh let's just we just kind of give him a break. It does kind of take away from this excitement of the Gold Cup because we're realistically not going to be seeing the best uh USMNT roster of available players. Advertisement The Club World Cup also takes away some of the players, but also being the last real. Competition before the World Cup, you'd want your a squad to get more minutes together and that the fact that that's not happening is a little bit upsetting, especially Christian Ballistic, just you're a leader, you're a captain, you know what I mean? So I kind of want you there. I get it. I get both perspectives. It's hard to be that, uh, harsh or critical about it because you also want him to be healthy at the healthy, and he's having the best run of form in his club career. You want that to continue. Maybe they're getting moved to a team that's in Champions League or at least be even more of a, of a leader at AC Milan. Advertisement So I get it, but it's the leading scorer at AC Milan, bro, can he be the leading scorer during the Gold Cup though? Yeah. The biggest issue about the 2026 World Cup is that we don't have very, we don't have meaningful games to play in to qualify for that World Cup because we automatically qualify. So now it's like getting. That energy and excitement, you know, chemistry, camaraderie, we need to build all of that. And also, to your point, you gotta find the, the fringe players that can either sneak into a more meaningful position or those players that can sneak into the fringe, you know what I mean, that can get themselves in that squad that can add depth, right? Advertisement So, uh, so look, I'm, I'm hoping it all works out for, for Plus, and we don't know if he ends up, uh, moving to a different club because that's also a real possibility, uh, but that's, uh, that's an option this summer, so he, I'm sure he has a lot going on.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Have new financial fair play rules fixed the parity issue in soccer?
Have new financial fair play rules fixed the parity issue in soccer? | The Cooligans Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros discuss how financial fair play rules have impacted the sport of soccer. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Crystal Palace, Newcastle, and Bolonia have ended 50-year trophy droughts. Advertisement I have to ask the question, has financial fair play fixed football? I think financial fair play rules have kind of fixed football. In the long run, it has leveled the playing field enough. It is given opportunity for smaller clubs to be able to hold on to their players and not just get all their best players poached by the biggest clubs. It's knocked down. Dynasties, even going back to Bayer Leverkusen, maybe not exactly because of PSR, but Bayer Leverkusen last season and what they were able to do, that seemingly has spread across other leagues, maybe not to the same effect, but you have to say the rules that have been put in place, while not perfect, have absolutely helped team the quality improved uh uh uh through the table and through the middle of the table. Advertisement Liverpool are. Currently on, I think 83 points to win the title in the last 5 years to win with like whatever 86 that they'll end up with, that's fairly low. Arteta was always saying 90 is the number, right? 90 is the number. You got to get it. So to win with that. So now it's getting frustrating for an Arsenal fan. It's getting, it's getting harder to beat the, the Brentfords, the West Hams this season is interesting because even. The, the, the points for the teams, the teams that were relegated were relegated with what they were 3 weeks ago or something like that. They had terrible seasons, the, the 3 relegated teams, and nobody reached 90 points, you know what I mean? Advertisement So those points were spread throughout the rest of the table. The middle of the table is what you're saying is stronger than it's ever been, which says a lot. The conversation about the top 4 and the top 6 or the big 6 or whatever, it's. That's sort of gone, right? There's no, there's no such thing as a big 6 anymore, especially now when you got Newcastle fighting for, for a position in in Europe, Nottingham For being in the conversation, Brighton not really going away until late. I mean, some of these conversations are gonna continue where it's not the typical 4 or 5. And also this puts so much more pressure on teams like Manchester United to not only figure it out but just just to sort of straighten their course because there's so much more competition.
