Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy Wins 6th MLS Cup, Pulisic Injured, and Chelsea's EPL Chase
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
The LA Galaxy win their 6th MLS Cup! On Unfiltered Soccer, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard are joined by Fox Sports Lead Analyst Stu Holden and they’re talking about the comeback of the LA Galaxy from head coach Greg Vanney’s confidence to the Galaxy fanbase's DEMAND to see change in their club! Stu and Tim tease Landon about having the MLS MVP award named after him, and Stu shares why he hopes Christian Pulisic doesn’t return too quickly from his calf injury. Meanwhile in the Premier League, Landon and Tim aren’t so sure Sporting Director Dan Ashworth’s departure from Manchester United was a mutual decision and ask why more people aren’t talking about Chelsea’s run for the title. USL’s value to the USMNT, MLS season schedules and financial caps are the topic of our mailbag, and in Anything But Soccer, Tim and Landon don’t begrudge Juan Soto for heading to Queens to get his bag. New episodes of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim drop every Tuesday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. (www.flowcode.com/page/unfilteredsoccer) Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What did the LA Galaxy's 6th MLS Cup victory mean?
We got something special. For the first time on the Unfiltered Soccer Podcast, we have our first guest, and it is my honor. Let's go. to introduce Bolton legend, Houston Dynamo legend, US Men's National Team World Cup member, lead soccer analyst at Fox Sports, soccer dad, and all around a truly amazing friend and person, Stu Holden. Stu, welcome in, buddy.
Yes, yes. Honored to make my debut, boys, in the podcast. I heard you talking about your sponsors, Volkswagen. But Timmy, is that a Louis Vuitton soccer ball up there? Are you trying to speak a little Louis?
I mean, that would be on brand for you, bro. It would be on brand. I appreciate the shout because I don't have that sponsorship yet, but we're working on it. We're working on it.
I would have thought you did by the amount of bags you have. Oh, come steamrolling in, my guy. How you been, bro? Everything good? I'm good, man. You know, I was at Dignity Health Sports Park for the Galaxy win on Saturday. So it was fun to see the Galaxy back, and it was a great buzz in that building. But otherwise, man, you know, I'm being soccer dad.
I know you boys are both soccer dads as well. I'm running around from soccer practice to dance to gymnastics. Like, this was a nice break. I actually, by being on this podcast today, I get to skip school runs. So if we could film for like two hours. That would be great. Weekly guest. Yeah. Weekly guest, 7 a.m. Thanks. Sorry, Kara. You can do a daily shoot. Amazing. Landon, you done gloating?
Have you had like, you know, 48 hours?
Actually, I wanted to show you guys something just because you guys wouldn't really know. I mean... Um, so I got my ring. I'm going to wear it. Just, I'm just going to wear it.
Okay. Well, I'm going to go grab my tooth if you give me a second.
Well, I don't have enough fingers for mine, pal, but, um, Oh, wow.
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Chapter 2: How is Christian Pulisic's injury affecting his career?
doesn't help like that really really hurts when it comes to like yeah they're like they're trending upward right and then it's funny if you just if you knew nothing about the Premier League this year you'd say they lost to Forrest yeah but Forrest are actually a good team They're a good team, and they're kind of lingering up near the top, like much higher than they should be.
But this was a bad result for United.
It's a really bad result. But again, it's like, I know Forrest is doing well this season, but as a new manager coming in, you still need to get those results, right? Because... Part of it, as we've talked about, is stripping away the old ideas from Tin Hog and putting in your new ideas as Amarim. And as you do that, you need to get some results. And that didn't happen.
But also the performance, although it wasn't totally flat, it was a little bit, it left something to be desired. Look, you can see the patterns. You can definitely see the ideas. I don't think the players are there. So you're almost looking at this now as like, let's maybe, this season's kind of a wash. Europe's probably gone in terms of like top four. We're not going to win.
We're not going to win the league. So maybe we just take it on the chin and we just keep working at getting better in terms of philosophy, knowing that there's going to be players.
But that's so hard, Tim, because that is the right approach in every sport. You know, the Lakers for a while were just down, not doing the Celtics down. The right approach is you just start over, you start clean, and you build, and you build, and you build.
But it's so hard because every weekend feels like a must win when you're in the Premier League, as you know, when you're in the Premier League.
And you're the biggest team, the biggest name. Yeah, that's right. That's how it works.
You know, he's going to have, Ruben Amram's going to have, he's got a PR management position. on his hands, right? That to him is one, two, and three, internally and externally. How do you handle it internally with your players? Look, I know we lost. We're getting better. We're doing the right things. Externally, we lost, but we're getting better. This is going to take time. This is a process.
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