Callan K.

How do I tag Phil

Trying my best!

Despite making this account for literally one reason, MLS soccer and specifically Timbers content, I am somehow on the complete opposite side of the map from the soccer community 😔

Gass is a Finn Surman hater apparently

(Just joking because that's not possible)

Waking up to rain on the car windshield instead of frost is really a wonderful start to the day

Alright so when is this happening? I just finished the released episodes and crave more!!

Marco Farfan

As a timbers fan, we are probably too highly ranked here

Agreed, they did a very good job of putting the transfer, fee and reasoning to do it, in perspective

8th most expensive fee in history with potential add ons, what am I missing here?

Understand the point, but I'm guessing we have more flexibility than you'd think after shedding contracts of Paredes, Zuparic, Crepeau. That alone is over $2 million of salary cap space opened up.

Perhaps

After watching him for RSL, no thanks

Yes, for sure not expecting millions or anything for him. But honestly after this season, he's clearly not worth $1.5 million of cap space anymore and any fee on top of that would be a bonus. It's a different question if we spend well to fill that hole though

That's all fair as an MLS-wide comparison. My point was more towards comparing him to his 2024 season and saying he took a step back

One big "if" not mentioned in the article (understandably so) is Mora has been heavily linked to a sale back to Chile. Would be a smart move to get a transfer fee by picking up the option + opening some serious cap space

Not sure the "not a 90-minute guy" is totally fair considering he played the 2nd most minutes of anyone on the team (almost double his minutes played in 2024). He was also a monster defensively which I don't think we saw in 2024. He did end the year on a downward trend, but had an amazing first 2/3

Great Timbers report and I agree with almost everything there. To nitpick a little though.. Ayala has been an absolute animal for Portland this year, and was a clear runner-up in the fan voted POTY (Surman). Not sure how he's regressed at all from previous years where he's been injured or recovering

Bar: Joxer Daly's and their amazing owner Eugene

Who cares how competitive it is if the quality keeps falling behind global standards?

Thanks for blowing up every single MLS groupchat

#PhirePhil

As an eastern conference neutral, I can promise you they've been talked about enough. Any listener that's not specifically a union fan didn't need/want to hear more about them for this specific episode, and I'm sure we'll hear more about them in episodes previewing the next round

Ok but this is Phil Neville here, so we're inevitably going back to mid block and losing 5-1

I love Velde

Do you specifically mean penalties, or the run of play? San Diego obviously could've / should've won, but it never felt like Portland was out completely of it

Reminder that if we weren't paying 4 DPs, we'd be around NYRB, LAFC area. Still not great, but it feels like a pretty important asterisk. Take out Carballo who played 120 minutes total and we're even more average

Not even Olatunji? I thought he's looked pretty good. Cruz has just been bad next to him when they play 4-2-2-2, and there was no chemistry between the two

Yeah we're cooked